“Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.” SoulEvilSimpleHabitEndureSimplicitySimple LivingEvil ThoughtsImpervious Book:John Climacus (CWS) Source: John Climacus (CWS)
“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.” I CanMatterPhotographyPhotographerPhotographRepeatsWhat Matters Author: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, but there comes a moment when we must destroy what we have constructed.” KnowsWantMomentsKnow HowLimitsPhotographyPhotographerOneselfNot InterestedRepetition Author:Josef Koudelka
“If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.” IfsPhotographyMiraclePhotographerDissatisfiedGood Photo Author:Josef Koudelka
“Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.” IfsWellsSometimesEnoughPhotographyPhotographerPhotograph Author:Josef Koudelka
“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 contacts and with my prints, I look at them all the time. I believe that the result of this work stays in me and at the moment of photographing it comes out, without my thinking of it.” IfsThinkingBelieveLooksMomentsGuyAsksI BelieveResultsPhotographyPhotographerPhotographContactPrintThis Guy Author:Josef Koudelka
“I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.” PeopleLooksStoriesPhotographyPhotographerCaption Author: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.” IfsCountryThreeSeeingMonthsPhotographyBlindPhotographerThree MonthsIf I Stay Author: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 say: 'Listen, I think it was quite different. I saw people being killed.' They say: 'No. We never... no shooting. No. No.' So I can show them my Prague 1968 photographs and say, 'Listen, these are my pictures. I was there.' And they have to believe me.” PeopleThinkingBelieveI CanDifferentSometimesShowsSawsHappenedPhotographyPhotographerPhotographSoldierProofRussiaShootingBelieve In MeExesPrague Author:Josef Koudelka
“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 always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist.” WorldTryingLeftPhotographyEuropePhotographerPhotographDisappearEnormousRapids Author:Josef Koudelka