16 Quotes by Josef Koudelka

The maximum, that is what has always interested me.

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.

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 boring pictures – people have to say so many things about them to show you there is something to them when many times there is nothing.

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 advertising. No, my freedom is something I do not give away easily.

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

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.