54 Quotes by Helmut Newton

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.

...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.

My women are always victorious.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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