Juergen Teller Quotes

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.

I got into this business because I like acting and I want to make movies. I would be happy living the rest of my life never famous.

I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge.

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

I've never looked at film-making as a career. I've looked on film-making as an adventure. When you come down the mountain, you get ready to climb again.

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

Since I'm so slow, I have to be fairly choosy about the projects I take on, and it can't be something that I'm only 'sort of' into. I knew that 'The Stand' would be an amazing challenge every month that would be a blast to illustrate.

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

Nas has always been uncomfortable with being famous and accessible. Nas makes music because he loves music, not because he wants the trappings of music, such as fame.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

You create content because you love it, not necessarily because you're looking for fame or know what it will potentially lead to.

I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.

I see all these professional photographers out at the racetrack, and there's all these people across the world, taking really cool pictures and you're like, 'Man, I want to create that!' I had that mindset when I first grabbed a camera.

Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion.