I saw New York differently after being in Paris for a few years. — William Klein Being 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 Copy Share Image
I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always… — William Klein Copy Share Image
You do things for yourself, and you do things for other people, and you hope that these things coincide. — William Klein Coincide 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 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 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
My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people.… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or… — William Klein 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 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
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'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 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 have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I had no real respect for good technique because I didn't know what it was. I was self-taught, so that stuff didn't… — William Klein Copy Share Image
Most of the other soldiers were older than me and sent money back to their families, so they were more prudent. — William Klein 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 Copy Share Image
Fashion had no interest for me. I would take photographs in the studio. I would go back home, and my wife would… — William Klein 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
When I made 'Polly Maggoo,' it was more or less the end of this collaboration with 'Vogue' because I made a caricature… — William Klein 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
The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness - I tried to find a photographic style that would come close… — William Klein Copy Share Image
Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I did a film on Muhammad Ali before he was champion. I was there when he became champion in 1964. I was… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what… — William Klein 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 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
If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines… — William Klein Accident 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
I didn't really know who Cassius Clay was. I just wanted to show America through a heavyweight championship fight. Ever since my… — William Klein America Copy Share Image
