Helmut Newton Quotes

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• 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 of looking at things.

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  Way, Taste, Exciting

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• The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

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  Photography, Art, Moving

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• I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

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  Photography, Hate, Creative

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• Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.

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  Photography, Moving, Inspiration

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• My women are always victorious.

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  Luxury

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• It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

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  White, Car, Paper

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• My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

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  Photography, Jobs, Portraits

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• There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

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  Photography, Art, Dirty

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• Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

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  Photography, Intellectual, Looks

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• 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 background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.

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  White, Special, Cameras

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• 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 sexually much more exciting than a woman who's completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic.

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  Thinking, Availability, Giving

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• ...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

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  Trying, Looks, Working It

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• 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 her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Three

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• 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.

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  Photography, Art, Dirty

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• What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.

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  Photography, Fashion, Interesting

  American Photo, p. 90, January/February 2000.

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• 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 again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.

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  Photography, Art, Ideas

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• 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 not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.

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  Photography, Art, Gun

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• Genius and taste don't go together.

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  Together, Genius, Taste

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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 permit me to.

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  Photography, Discipline, Challenges

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• It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.

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  Portraits, Scandalous

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• 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 write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

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  Notebook, Writing, Thinking

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• I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

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  Wings, People, Lasts

  "Photo". Book by Graphis Incorporated, 2005.

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• 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 equipment. I work out of one bag.

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  Photography, Work Out, Bags

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• 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 was in my camera.

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  Hate, Color, Cameras

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• I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.

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  Art, Wife, Directors

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