Josef Sudek quotes

Josef Sudek quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.”
-- Josef Sudek

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“...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly dead object comes to life through light or by its surroundings... To capture some of this - I suppose that's lyricism.”
-- Josef Sudek

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“I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects.”
-- Josef Sudek

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“I believe a lot in instinct. One should never dull it by wanting to know everything. One shouldn't ask too many questions but do what one does properly, never rush, and never torment oneself.”
-- Josef Sudek

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“I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I would not have stayed with it all my life.”
-- Josef Sudek

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“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.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
“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.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
“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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