Helmut Newton Quotes

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.

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

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take. It is going to be a huge hit.

I realized all of the possibilities that could exist for me with my camera: all of the images that I could capture, all of the lives I could enter, all of the people I could meet and how much I could learn from them.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

There are no rules in art.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

Making a movie really frees up the way you think.

To catch a piece of life on camera and make it come alive, add layers to it and deliver a product that is wholesome is really exciting to me.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

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

I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.

Creating films and photographs through situations that few others could experience is my life's inspiration.

I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.