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 How 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
I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me. — William Klein Interest Copy Share Image
I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened. — William Klein Always 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
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
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 Basically 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 Blurred Copy Share Image
I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor. — William Klein Dark Copy Share Image
This is supposed to be the Big Apple, with neighborhoods where the houses are all good-looking and the skyscrapers and everything. But… — William Klein Everything 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 Amateurs Copy Share Image
Leger was not only the first artist I ever met but also the first pop artist, and he blew our minds. — William Klein Art 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
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
Sometimes, I'd take shots without aiming, just to see what happened. I'd rush into crowds - bang! bang! ... It must be… — William Klein Aiming 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
My sister was brilliant: she was in the 25 top math students in the country. When she finished college, I said, 'Spend… — William Klein Country 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 Camera 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 Black 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 Feel Copy Share Image
I think that Damien Hirst putting a shark in a bath of formaldehyde is nothing. — William Klein Bath 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 Inspirational Copy Share Image
When I made 'Polly Maggoo,' it was more or less the end of this collaboration with 'Vogue' because I made a caricature… — William Klein Caricature 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 Be true to yourself 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 Accident Copy Share Image
My father was like Willy Loman, you know: he never really made it - and he was from a family where there… — William Klein Family 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 Believe Copy Share Image
