Of Course It's All Luck.

The Camera Can Be A Machine Gun, A Warm Kiss, A Sketchbook. Shooting A Camera Is Like Saying, Yes, Yes, Yes. There Is No Maybe. All The Maybes Should Go In The Trash.

Poetry Is The Essence Of Everything, And It’s Through Deep Contact With Reality And Living Fully That You Reach Poetry. Very Often I See Photographers Cultivating The Strangeness Or Awkwardness Of A Scene, Thinking It Is Poetry. No. Poetry Is Two Elements Which Are Suddenly Conflict — A Spark Between Two Elements. But It’s Given Very Seldom, And You Can’t Look For It. It’s Like If You Look For Inspiration. No, It Just Comes By Enriching Yourself And Living.

What Reinforces The Content Of A Photograph Is The Sense Of Rhythm - The Relationship Between Shapes And Values.

Pictures Should Never Be Posed. They Are 'revealed' So Must Be Accepted As They Are. Left Alone.

Photography Is A Way Of Shouting, Of Freeing Oneself, Not Of Proving Or Asserting One's Own Originality. It's A Way Of Life.