My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings. — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
Take pictures all the time. Don't worry if you take a bad photograph; you learn more by taking a bad picture than a good… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera. — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas this could… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera. — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera. — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons. — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day. — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream, — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
