Koudelka Photography Quotes

#1. 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.

Josef Koudelka

#2. I am not interested in repetition. I don't want to reach the point from where I wouldn't know how to go further. It's good to set limits for oneself, but there comes a moment when we must destroy what we have constructed.

Josef Koudelka

#3. Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.

Pope Gregory XVI

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

Josef Koudelka

#5. 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.

Josef Koudelka

#6. While we try to find out what happened to her, there's something you should keep in mind."
Jess arched a brow. "Oh?"
"If Hayes Bannock has your wife, you probably top his shit list. Be afraid.

Sandra Brown

#7. Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.

Timothy Keller

#8. I ponder the rhythms of letting go and embracing whatever is around the corner, trusting that the empty spaces will be filled. And knowing that sometimes community can happen only in the gaps where mystery resides.

Joyce Hollyday

#9. The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.

Ernest Holmes

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

Josef Koudelka

#11. Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.

Dinesh D'Souza

#12. I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.

Brigitte Nielsen

#13. Working is the best way to understand and grow, as an actor, in my opinion. That's been my experience.

Britt Robertson

#14. For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

Marcel Proust

#15. 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."

Josef Koudelka

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

Josef Koudelka

#17. Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Josef Koudelka

#19. Sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving ...

Marcel Proust

#20. I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.

Josef Koudelka

#21. If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

Marv Levy

#22. I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

Donnie Yen

#23. What happens if a car comes?
We die.

Nicholas Sparks

#24. There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.

Jackie Stewart

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

Josef Koudelka