My complaint is that Americans drive me crazy, and the politics drive me crazy. — William Klein Americans Copy Share Image
I saw New York differently after being in Paris for a few years. — William Klein Being Copy Share Image
I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that? — William Klein Copy Share Image
I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger. — 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 Fashion Copy Share Image
Fashion was more of a sideline for me. I did it for the money. — William Klein Fashion Copy Share Image
Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting. — William Klein Experiment Copy Share Image
My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would… — William Klein America Copy Share Image
If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines… — William Klein Accident Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in New York, long before saturation sports coverage, the world heavyweight championship was, with the baseball World… — William Klein Baseball Copy Share Image
I did a film on Muhammad Ali before he was champion. I was there when he became champion in 1964. I was… — 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
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 didn't really know who Cassius Clay was. I just wanted to show America through a heavyweight championship fight. Ever since my… — William Klein America 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 like festivals of all kinds: in 1969, I made a film about the first Pan-African festival in Algiers, which celebrated the… — William Klein Cinema Copy Share Image
I'm known for fashion photographs, but fashion photographs were mostly a joke for me. In 'Vogue,' girls were playing at being duchesses,… — William Klein Brooklyn Copy Share Image
I was making a film on Muhammad Ali in 1964, and I went to Miami to film everything around the fight for… — William Klein Fight Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I'd take shots without aiming, just to see what happened. I'd rush into crowds - bang! bang! ... It must be… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I thought it would be a good idea to look at New York with this half-European, half-native eye and really do something… — William Klein City Copy Share Image
In America, kids would go to college and get out and buy a second-hand car and go across the country and discover… — William Klein America 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 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
I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened. — William Klein Copy Share Image
I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me. — William Klein Interest Copy Share Image
I think that Damien Hirst putting a shark in a bath of formaldehyde is nothing. — William Klein Artist Copy Share Image
For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera. — William Klein Book Copy Share Image
As a kid, I wanted to be part of the Lost Generation who came to France. — William Klein France Copy Share Image
I wasn't part of any movement. I was working alone, following my instinct. — William Klein Alone Copy Share Image
What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life. — William Klein Copy Share Image
