Quotes by Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton

…what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

Looks

Trying

Working It

Genius and taste don’t go together.

Genius

Taste

Together

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.

Exciting

Taste

Way

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

Girl

Lasts

Years

I find myself, after all these years, with a built-in safety-brake that stops me from doing certain things. And one of the reasons why I want to try so called hard pornography – I don’t even know whether it’s hard enough – is to see whether I will be able to overcome this. Because if there is one thing I hate, it’s good taste, to me it’s a dirty word.

Dirty

Hate

Years

I hate good taste. It’s the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

Creative

Hate

Photography

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.

Cameras

Special

White

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.

Lasts

People

Wings

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.

Beautiful

Stars

Three

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.

Notebook

Thinking

Writing

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Dirty

Discipline

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Genius

Girl

Giving

Gun

Guy

Hard Work

Hate

House

Ideas

Inspiration

Intellectual

Interesting

Jobs

Lasts

Looks

Luxury

Moving

Needs

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Paper

People

Photography

Portraits

Scandalous

Should

Special

Stars

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Thinking

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Quotes by Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton

…what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

Genius and taste don’t go together.

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.

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

I hate good taste. It’s the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

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.

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.

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