I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always… — William Klein Always Copy Share Image
I wasn't part of any movement. I was working alone, following my instinct. — William Klein Alone 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 think that Damien Hirst putting a shark in a bath of formaldehyde is nothing. — William Klein Bath Copy Share Image
When you use film, you use accidents, but there aren't any accidents with digital photography. I don't mind that it's easy. But… — William Klein Cinema 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
I saw New York differently after being in Paris for a few years. — William Klein Being 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
Fashion was more of a sideline for me. I did it for the money. — William Klein Fashion 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
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 Dare Copy Share Image
I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened. — William Klein Always Copy Share Image
In fashion, you have assistants, flashes; you can make sets. There are people running around doing things for you. But I can… — William Klein Around Copy Share Image
I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me. — William Klein Interest 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 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
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 good not to hide the fact that you're taking a photograph, and have people react and come… — William Klein Good 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 Collaboration 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
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
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
I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby.… — William Klein Civilization Copy Share Image
