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William Klein Quotes

French - Photographer | April 19, 1928 -

My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't know how to categorize me.

People Me Know Living Way Working

I had no real respect for good technique because I didn't know what it was. I was self-taught, so that stuff didn't matter to me.

Good Respect Me Know Matter Real

When you use film, you use accidents, but there aren't any accidents with digital photography. I don't mind that it's easy. But I do mind that there is a sort of consensus with the camera and the subject and the light, and you look at something, and you photograph it, and you get what you see.

Light Mind Camera Photography Look

French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only in the photographic style.

Style Violence Photography Never

In fashion, you have assistants, flashes; you can make sets. There are people running around doing things for you. But I can take it or leave it.

People Fashion Doing You I Can Take

You do things for yourself, and you do things for other people, and you hope that these things coincide.

Hope Yourself People You Things

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

Work Me Painting Photography Led

I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.

Negative Whatever Wanted Darkroom

I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that?

Support Think You Know Monarchy How

My father was like Willy Loman, you know: he never really made it - and he was from a family where there were people who had made it.

Family Father People You Know Never

Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.

Money Fun Fashion Thought Why Take

Fashion had no interest for me. I would take photographs in the studio. I would go back home, and my wife would say, 'What is the fashion like for this season?' And I would say, 'I have no idea.'

Home Wife Me Fashion Back Go

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