I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.

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 would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.

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

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.

The maximum, that is what has always interested me.