Josef Koudelka Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

The maximum, that is what has always interested me.

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

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 as I can.

Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.

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 of Prague was not news, it was my life.