Josef Sudek famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.
The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.
I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.
I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
I believe in "love it, or change it" rather than "love it, or leave it."
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

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