Juergen Teller Quotes

The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.

Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.

I love doing photoshoots; it let's me really show off my personality, flair, and makeup within a photo.

My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

My favorite thing about doing photo shoots is just being able to have fun, meeting new people, getting dressed up, and I just love doing it. So, I have a lot of fun.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

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

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.

If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

The funny thing is that I almost find it more difficult now to take a still picture than to be behind a moving camera. I'm just so much more inspired and comfortable and confident when I have that whole operation going. I feel more connected. Snapping a moment doesn't seem relevant to me anymore.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.