Peter Lindbergh Quotes

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

For me, I want to find the truth in the word and the character and the line.

Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

Sometimes the truth is more than the sum of the facts.

Write what he means, not what he says.

A picture can say a thousand words but maybe not the correct ones.

Tone is everything.

...everything looks worse in black and white.