Josef Koudelka Quotes

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• I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.
• I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.
• I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me. Everything influences me. I…
• I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not…
• What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far…
• I am not interested in repetition. I don't want to reach the point from where I wouldn't know how to go further. It's good to…
• If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.
• Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.
• When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy doing?" But I…
• I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.
• I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.
• 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 say:…
• The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what's left.…
• When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One…
• I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.
• The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive
• If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.

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