X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Fashion Photographer Inspirational Quotes (845)

Page 5 of 36
Filter & Style
Image
Think pink, but don't wear it.
Karl Lagerfeld
Image
It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.
Diane Arbus
Image
When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
Karl Lagerfeld
Image
Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?
Karl Lagerfeld
Image
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
Irving Penn
Image
I don't collect art at all. I'm fascinated by art. I receive a lot of presents. My house is full of things, but I am not a collector it's just that people I work for, and friends, give me a lot of things. There are pictures all over the walls, sculptures, mobiles and paintings. I am embarrassed because I wonder what I should do with them.
Peter Lindbergh
Image
Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They are photographed so we can worship them - so they are worthy of our worship.
David LaChapelle
Image
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
David Bailey
Image
I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. There’s a particular style that is very Peru that you don’t see anywhere else it’s got so many different imprints. When you mix Incan minimalism with the heavy, ornate Spanish Baroque, it is very interesting.
Mario Testino
Image
Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
Karl Lagerfeld
Image
I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.
Mario Testino
Image
If you watch Michael Jackson [1992] concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you'll see such uplifting beauty and a message that you won't see in any other artist of our time.
David LaChapelle
Image
Buy clothes the size you want to wear.
Karl Lagerfeld
Image
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
David Bailey
Image
Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.
Helmut Newton
Image
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.
Richard Avedon
Image
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
Karl Lagerfeld
Image
If you want reality take the bus.
David LaChapelle
Image
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.
Helmut Newton
Image
I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.
Philippe Halsman
Image
The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera
Norman Parkinson
Image
As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
Annie Leibovitz
Image
I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.
Harry Benson
Image
They're my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.
Karl Lagerfeld
Previous
Next