Patrick Demarchelier Quotes

• When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Dog, Mean, Thinking

  "Patrick Demarchelier: I Don’t Care — Or Know — Who I Shoot" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2012.

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• When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Eye, Cameras, Firsts

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• Take pictures all the time. Don't worry if you take a bad photograph; you learn more by taking a bad picture than a good one. If you don't like it, study it and figure out why you don't like it. You'll learn from your mistake.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Mistake, Worry, Study

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• Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Inspiring, Photography, People

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• Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas this could not be more false. It is the opposite of a mirror, a deformation.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Photography, Fashion, Real

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• I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Past, New Work, Tomorrow

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• When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Dream, Fashion, Inspire

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• I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Eye, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Dog, Portraits, I Love My Dog

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  People, Finals, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Dog, Perfect, Cameras

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• For me, the new pictures are what I'm thinking about every day. The past is the past, no? Every day is a new challenge.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Past, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  World, Digital, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Dream, Haute Couture, Dior

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• My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

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  Years, Cameras, France

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• Every day is a dream, every day I spend with my wife.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Dream, Wife, My Wife

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Sex, Would Be, Serious

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• The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Photography, Two, Next Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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