I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger. — William Klein Copy Share Image
For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera. — William Klein Copy Share Image
Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting. — William Klein Copy Share Image
I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me. — William Klein Copy Share Image
Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work. — William Klein Copy Share Image
Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money. — William Klein Copy Share Image
What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life. — William Klein Copy Share Image
If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life. — William Klein Copy Share Image
I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what… — William Klein Copy Share Image
French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs:… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I… — William Klein Copy Share Image
Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether… — William Klein Copy Share Image
What's very funny is when you see amateurs filming something, they do some things no professionals would dare to do. They instinctively… — William Klein Copy Share Image
The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness - I tried to find a photographic style that would come close… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting… — William Klein Copy Share Image
The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or… — William Klein Copy Share Image
When you use film, you use accidents, but there aren't any accidents with digital photography. I don't mind that it's easy. But… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm doing something that's worthwhile. I feel like I'm showing something other people haven't shown. I don't get to… — William Klein Copy Share Image
The digital camera takes photographs in practically no light: it will dig out the least bit of light available. I was amazed… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I was 24 years old at the time. I had no real notion of what photography was about. I had no training.… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the… — William Klein Copy Share Image
People didn't object to me taking their photo. It was something everybody thought was their due: to be King for a Day,… — William Klein Copy Share Image
In the late Fifties and early Sixties, I used to think that most of these fashion creators weren't that great, and if… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I thought it would be good not to hide the fact that you're taking a photograph, and have people react and come… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3 or 4… — William Klein Copy Share
I was 24 years old at the time. I had no real notion of what photography was about. I had no training. By accident,… — William Klein Copy Share
I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting a machine,… — William Klein Copy Share
My father was like Willy Loman, you know: he never really made it - and he was from a family where there were people… — William Klein Copy Share
My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would have dreamed… — William Klein Copy Share
This is supposed to be the Big Apple, with neighborhoods where the houses are all good-looking and the skyscrapers and everything. But to me,… — William Klein Copy Share
I feel like I'm doing something that's worthwhile. I feel like I'm showing something other people haven't shown. I don't get to talk to… — William Klein Copy Share
The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness - I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it.… — William Klein Copy Share
In America, kids would go to college and get out and buy a second-hand car and go across the country and discover America. I… — William Klein Copy Share
Sometimes, I'd take shots without aiming, just to see what happened. I'd rush into crowds - bang! bang! ... It must be close to… — William Klein Copy Share
My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't… — William Klein Copy Share
