William Klein Quotes

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

I picked up photography in high school.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.

And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.

I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

I like to know where the camera is.

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

I wish I were a really good photographer.

I always liked photography in film - I studied photography growing up. I like the medium of film; I like physically holding 35-mm film. I like the way it looks, the quality when it's projected. I like the way it frames real life.

Photography has always been about capturing light.

I just had the joy of taking pictures, and I never cared about my negatives. I just gave them away whenever anybody asked for them.

I enjoy photography. It's a lot of fun. It keeps me on my P's and Q's and, when you think about it, most people think photography is just going to a game. But you start to think, dang, that would be a good picture. Or you're driving along and see something and think, 'that would be nice.'

I never read about photography.