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 have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me. Everything influences me. I am quite different now than I was 40 years ago. For 40 years I have been traveling. I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

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.

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

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

When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: What is this guy doing? But I keep working with my contacts and with my prints, I look at them all the time. I believe that the result of this work stays in me and at the moment of photographing it comes out, without my thinking of it.