I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I am not interested in repetition. I don't want to reach the point from where I wouldn't know how to go further.… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do.… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
It never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It's important that I take them. There were periods where I… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
For me what photographers say about their photos doesn’t have any importance. For me it is just enough to look at the… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things.… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
For me what photographers say about their photos doesn’t have any importance. For me it is just enough to look at the pictures. Many… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate you…' I… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
My work has no theme. I don't care if my photographs get published, and I have no interest in the news. But the invasion… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
It never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It's important that I take them. There were periods where I didn't have… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
