Quotes by Peter Lindbergh

Peter Lindbergh

A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don’t believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter or sculptor who has probably never challenged the rules be an artist just because his title and an art school education automatically make him one.

Art

Believe

School

I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity.

Believe

Inspiration

Photography

I bought my first camera to photograph my brother’s children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and of not being focused on yourself, and I have to say that these things have remained with me to this day. I can immediately feel when someone is putting on a camera face.

Brother

Cameras

Children

I didn’t take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

Inspiration

Photographer

Way

I don’t collect art at all. I’m fascinated by art. I receive a lot of presents. My house is full of things, but I am not a collector; it’s just that people I work for, and friends, give me a lot of things. There are pictures all over the walls, sculptures, mobiles and paintings. I am embarrassed because I wonder what I should do with them.

Art

People

Wall

I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can’t really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don’t want any more books. I have too many books; sometimes I have to buy another copy of a book that I know I have somewhere in my house or office because I can’t find it.

Book

Moving

Paris

I remember how difficult it was to perform certain operations on gelatine prints. A few weeks ago I asked my gelatine printer at Picto, “Can you make just the shadows a little bit brighter?” He gave me a very strange look because in Photoshop you just turn a button, and we’re used to that now, but it is totally impossible in gelatine silver printing.

Buttons

Looks

Shadow

I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.

Expression

Photography

Taken

I would love to photograph Angelina Jolie. A friend of mine is working with her on her next film and told me what I was already suspecting, that she is extremely interesting. I have never seen a picture of her that conveys all of her complexity. That would be a fabulous challenge, to find that in a photograph.

Challenges

Interesting

Would Be

If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.

Independent

Photography

Strong Women

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Art

Believe

Book

Breaking Rules

Brother

Buttons

Cameras

Challenges

Children

Clothes

Done

Expression

Falling In Love

Fashion

Feelings

Giving

Holiday

Important

Independent

Inspiration

Interesting

Looks

Morning

Moving

Opportunity

Paris

People

Photographer

Photography

Reading

Real

School

Shadow

Simple

Stories

Strong Women

Taken

Thinking

Titles

Wall

Way

Would Be

Years

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Quotes by Peter Lindbergh

Peter Lindbergh

A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don’t believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter or sculptor who has probably never challenged the rules be an artist just because his title and an art school education automatically make him one.

I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity.

I bought my first camera to photograph my brother’s children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and of not being focused on yourself, and I have to say that these things have remained with me to this day. I can immediately feel when someone is putting on a camera face.

I didn’t take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can’t really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don’t want any more books. I have too many books; sometimes I have to buy another copy of a book that I know I have somewhere in my house or office because I can’t find it.

I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.

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