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 would imagine that someone would come to me and say: 'Here is money, you can go do your photography, but you must not show it.' I would have accepted right away. On the other hand, if someone had come to me saying: 'Here is money to do your photography, but after your death it must be destroyed,' I would have refused.
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… - 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 money, and I wou…
- Josef Koudelka
I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories. - Josef Koudelka
I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.
I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself. - Josef Koudelka
I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.
If a picture is good, it tells many different stories. - Josef Koudelka
If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.
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… - 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 not do editorial and I never do advertis…
If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle. - Josef Koudelka
If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.
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,… - Josef Koudelka
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,…
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. - 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 blind.
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… - Josef Koudelka
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…
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