Helmut Newton Quotes

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• The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally…
• Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.
• It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never…
• I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
• The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
• Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
• There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is…
• I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper…
• The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
• I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way…
• Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s…
• Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy…
• They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from…
• Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.
• There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste
• I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in…
• My women are always victorious.
• I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film…
• I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which…
• I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.

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