Filip Štojdl

I scavenge them from the earth and snatch them from the wind like a lunatic. I sear my eyes with them and roll tobacco inside their folds. Such are the ripped pages from my book of time, which some call photographs.Filip, homeless photographer

There is a brief moment when all there is in a man’s mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.Yousuf Karsh

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.Henri Cartier-Bresson

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.Diane Arbus

To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.Henri Cartier-Bresson

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.Edward Weston

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.Annie Leibovitz

It’s a world, someone’s face. When I capture it, I see the future of the world.Malick Sidibé

The eye is a great, beautiful chapter. And one that you never finish reading. I find that its range of expression keeps expanding, depending on how the sharpness of my own eye improves and how my empathy for other people deepens.František Drtikol

Of all the men, I will always love my dad the most.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.Ansel Adams

Filip Štojdl
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