Olivier Zahm famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Everyone is scared of having a free sexual life and what they do is go on the Internet and masturbate. This is the pure sexual misery today. They don't even go to the movie theater like in the '70s.
-- Olivier Zahm

#Today #Misery #Scared
There are so many possibilities around what a magazine should be today. I still believe in the printed object because, for me, print is memory. This is my main message for this 25th anniversary issue.
-- Olivier Zahm

#Memories #Believe #Today
I consider that sex is part of life as much as architecture, fashion, art or food. Sex is life, simple. And I refuse to consider that sex should be hidden. When you hide sex, problems start because sex becomes dangerous.
-- Olivier Zahm

#Fashion #Art #Simple
You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life.
-- Olivier Zahm

#Photography #Everyday #Everyday Life
For me, the Internet is the opposite of memory; the Internet is amnesia, it's about today and tomorrow is another day. Printed issues are about recording time, leaving a trace and making it relevant.
-- Olivier Zahm

#Memories #Leaving #Today
Publishing magazines costs a lot of money and people don't read magazines anymore, they're all captivated by Instagram. I have to reinvent myself every season to keep the interest of the reader. Twenty-five years later, my mission is the same: Captivating the readers, not flattering the industry.
-- Olivier Zahm

#People #Captivating #Interest
Sven Schumann did an interview with photographer Wolfgang Tillmans in Berlin addressing the question: What is photography today when everyone is a photographer? These kinds of questions and answers you find in a magazine, on paper and not on Instagram. For me this is the essence of a magazine - it's questioning what's going on today and celebrating true creativity without compromise.
-- Olivier Zahm

#Photography #Creativity #Today
The reason I introduced sex - or erotic imagery - to Purple is not only because I don't want sex to be hidden but because also I consider it as an extension of fashion, the way the body expresses seduction and beauty. It's very artificial to put sex in a ghetto. Plus, sex sells.
-- Olivier Zahm

#Fashion #Ghetto #Seduction

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.
All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.
Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

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