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Paul Ricken: A good photographer must know how to paint with light.
Francesc Boix: That is cheating.
Paul Ricken: This is art.
Paul Ricken: Some pictures have to be touched up. Some others, only the staging. Human beings are malleable.
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Francesc Boix: [Looking at the Head of Medusa painting] I like it.
Paul Ricken: Be careful. It used to turn onlookers to stone. I like having some artists as references.
Francesc Boix: I prefer taking pictures of reality.
Paul Ricken: Reality doesn't exist, Franz. It all depends on the point of view. Don't forget it.
Eduard Buch
Extended Reading
The Photographer of Mauthausen quotes
