William Klein Quotes

I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

One of my favorite photographers is Ruvan Wijesooriya, who takes most of the LCD photos. His work is incredibly colloquial and raw.

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he 'uncovers' it.

To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.

The camera and I have always had good chemistry.

Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want to be giving or what kind of art that you want people to see.

You see someone like maybe William Eggleston. William doesn't even really talk about what he does; he just wants to make these images. He kind of hovers around a location and extracts these images.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

Photography is truth.

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.

I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.