Jurgen Teller famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Everything in a wide sense is a kind of a self-portrait. It's just the way you see things and you're curious about certain things and just excited about them.
-- Jurgen Teller

#Self #Portraits #Way
It's important to not be afraid of failure and to push yourself to try things and jump in the cold water. There are incredible, beautiful opportunities out there.
-- Jurgen Teller

#Beautiful #Opportunity #Water
This beauty ideal is everywhere. You can't escape it - TV, wallpaper, posters, billboards, magazines. They put on these crazy perceptions about what people should look like. It's really shocking the way everybody is striving for this one thing, this ultimate beauty, but what is it?
-- Jurgen Teller

#Crazy #People #Perception
I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.
-- Jurgen Teller

#Direct Approach #Want #Sides
I don't care about fashion at all. And I know it's kind of a dodgy thing to be a fashion photographer, a kind of pathetic occupation, but I like it, even though I question it.
-- Jurgen Teller

#Fashion #Care #Occupation
The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings with the conversations with my mother about, when I was little, how we lived and about suicide and talking about it, so it's something positive, it brought us more together, because people might never discuss that. Some families never go near certain subjects because it's too hurtful or too close or too dangerous. But within doing these photographs, I also wanted to open up a conversation with her about certain things about life.
-- Jurgen Teller

#Mother #Suicide #Talking
When you're a well-known fashion photographer, modeling agencies call constantly. They'll say, This great girl is in town for three days. She's excellent, she's exciting. You've got to see her... So I decided to really have a look at them. I opened up my studio and said, Send anyone... And I became quite addicted to the whole thing. I was curious to see how many girls would come. I couldn't believe that there really were so many around.
-- Jurgen Teller

#Girl #Fashion #Believe

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
I was once naÃ¯ve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

Jurgen Teller famous quotes

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