Terry Richardson Quotes

I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex. I think I just show my own sexuality, but I don't think I've ever really written about having sex or anything like that.

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.

I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

I don't try to hide sex in my music. Music is very sexual. I don't hide it.

It has to be absolutely believable. It's also going between images and scenes with nudity and sexuality that would be seen, in conventional terms, as kind of sexually exciting. It's up against things that are much more medical and gynecological, and notoriously we, as a culture and a society, have some issues with that kind of thing.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love gritty and dark art like what the German couple Herakut does.

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.

Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.

My works tends to be erotic.

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.

I started shooting pictures because I had all these photographers around me, and life was kind of boring creatively because you play the same songs every night. So I looked for another outlet, and I started shooting.

There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business.

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.

I have no interest in art. Let me clarify — I have no interest in non-nude images.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.