French - Photographer | April 19, 1928 -
Leger was not only the first artist I ever met but also the first pop artist, and he blew our minds.
William Klein
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Most of the other soldiers were older than me and sent money back to their families, so they were more prudent.
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I was a very clumsy Jewish kid.
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Don't have rules, taboos, or limits.
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I like festivals of all kinds: in 1969, I made a film about the first Pan-African festival in Algiers, which celebrated the countries that had been liberated 10 years earlier. There was a tremendous feeling of kinship.
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The English are very exotic to me.
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In the late Fifties and early Sixties, I used to think that most of these fashion creators weren't that great, and if the photograph was good, it was mostly thanks to the photographer.
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I did a film on Muhammad Ali before he was champion. I was there when he became champion in 1964. I was happy to be able to document the development of a real American hero.
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I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look at and how they look at things.
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I think that Damien Hirst putting a shark in a bath of formaldehyde is nothing.
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What's very funny is when you see amateurs filming something, they do some things no professionals would dare to do. They instinctively do things that are very avant-garde and useful.
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In America, kids would go to college and get out and buy a second-hand car and go across the country and discover America. I never did that; I went from New York to Paris, and New York was my America.
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