Three months Quotes by Josef Koudelka

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

I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.

— Josef Koudelka

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

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive

— Josef Koudelka

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

If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.

— Josef Koudelka

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.

— Josef Koudelka

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

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

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

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

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.

— Josef Koudelka