Helmut Newton famous quotes

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

#Photography #Jobs #Portraits

I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things,
-- Helmut Newton

#Way #Taste #Exciting

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Art #Dirty

My women are always victorious.
-- Helmut Newton

#Luxury

Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Work Out #Bags

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.
-- Helmut Newton

#White #Car #Doe

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Hate #Creative

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Discipline #Challenges

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Intellectual #Looks

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Art #Dirty

Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Art #Gun

It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Art #Ideas

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.
-- Helmut Newton

#Art #Vocabulary #Two

The first 10 000 shots are the worst.
-- Helmut Newton

#Firsts #Shots #Worst

Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Moving #Inspiration

What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Fashion #Interesting

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Art #Moving

I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older.
-- Helmut Newton

#Beautiful #Stars #Three

There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually much more exciting than a woman who's completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic.
-- Helmut Newton

#Thinking #Availability #Giving

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.
-- Helmut Newton

#Hate #Color #Cameras

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Hard Work #Thinking

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.
-- Helmut Newton

#California #House #Backyards

I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.
-- Helmut Newton

#Art #Wife #Directors

I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.
-- Helmut Newton

#Girl #Years #Lasts

I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.
-- Helmut Newton

#White #Special #Cameras

They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.
-- Helmut Newton

#Thinking #Guy #Needs

You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available.
-- Helmut Newton

#Would Be #Should #Feels

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
-- Helmut Newton

#Wings #People #Lasts

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.
-- Helmut Newton

#Notebook #Writing #Thinking