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.

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.

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

The maximum, that is what has always interested me.

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

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 of the things he said was, "Josef, a photographer works on the subject, but the subject works on the photographer."

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.