Juergen Teller

I wasn't aware it could make me rich or famous. I just wanted to take pictures.

— Juergen Teller

I have a Mercedes. I wear a Rolex watch. I have no problem with the selling of things.

— Juergen Teller

I like friendship.

— Juergen Teller

I like people with conviction, who are in control of themselves. I'm not interested in working with a designer who hires a…

— Juergen Teller

You can't get away from fashion. The whole beauty thing is everywhere. It's just really weird.

— Juergen Teller

I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights…

— Juergen Teller

I couldn't identify with the images in 'Elle' or 'Vogue' or 'Harper's Bazaar.' Nobody in the world we're walking around in actually…

— Juergen Teller

I think it's really important to not be afraid of failure and to push yourself to try things and jump in the…

— Juergen Teller

In Germany, the body is treated rather differently than in the U.K. or U.S. I grew up with a swimming pool in…

— Juergen Teller

One day, I'll be photographing Kate Moss in Paris, then I'll be on Stephanie Seymour's ranch with her hundred horses wondering what…

— Juergen Teller

I don't really like being controlled by anyone.

— Juergen Teller

I think my strength is to act instinctively, really quickly, on what I believe, what I see in this person. A proper…

— Juergen Teller

When I was a child, I always went to my grandmother's house in Nuremberg for Christmas. My uncle would leave the room,…

— Juergen Teller

I would be lost without my family.

— Juergen Teller

I go, wherever there is my interest, where my heart and feeling take me.

— Juergen Teller

It's important to spend time with your work. That's when you see it, when you have a feeling.

— Juergen Teller

When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have…

— Juergen Teller

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

— Juergen Teller

I don't care what other people think. I hate conforming, that you have to wear this to a business meeting or that…

— Juergen Teller

I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.

— Juergen Teller

Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least…

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I'm interested in extrovert characters, people who are doing something. But I used to only be able to photograph people I was…

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I always work with two cameras. Its kind of like I'm hypnotizing the subject with the flashing. It's a bombardment of action,…

— Juergen Teller

Nudity is no big deal as a German. It's all rather normal and boring.

— Juergen Teller

I cycle whenever possible around London. But I travel first class when I need to fly.

— Juergen Teller