If a picture is good, it tells many different stories..

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 money, and I wou….

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. I have….

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 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 set limits for oneself,….

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 keep working with my con….

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 w….

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..

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

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: 'Liste….

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

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 am quite diff….

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 times - for the ….

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

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..

I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself..

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 do editorial and I never do advertis….

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

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..

The maximum, that is what has always interested me..