71 Quotes by Juergen Teller

My father and one of my grandfathers died very early, and female figures have been an influential part of my life.

I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.

In Germany, the body is treated rather differently than in the U.K. or U.S. I grew up with a swimming pool in our garden and a sauna in our basement.

For my 50th birthday, my cousin Helmut gave me the most profound, beautiful, and striking present. He made books out of my dad's slide photographs, which were stored and forgotten. Looking at those books made me cry.

When I came to London in 1986, I was amazed at how prudish everyone was.

I'm interested in extrovert characters, people who are doing something. But I used to only be able to photograph people I was interested in or attracted to, either psychologically or physically. That all changed when I did the 'Go Sees.'

Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.

Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful.

Quite frankly, if I didn't enjoy the fashion industry, then I wouldn't continue to do it.