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.
I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.
If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.
Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.