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.

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 maximum, that is what has always interested me.

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

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.

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.

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