71 Quotes by Juergen Teller

There was a stage in my career when I started to have problems with the vanity aspect of the subject. I got frustrated and bored with it. Then I thought, actually, how does it feel to be photographed? That's when I started to photograph myself. That was an incredibly important moment, and it opened up my work tremendously.

I like friendship.

I'm not interested in running around from one shoot to another.

I don't really like being controlled by anyone.

I go, wherever there is my interest, where my heart and feeling take me.

Family is a major part of my life.

I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer.

I never really think of anyone as models, even the models.

I want adventure in my life. I want to do things I haven't done before. These Hollywood people are so careful of their image and looking right, but there's a wildness when I come into the photographs. I just want to wade through rivers, climb mountains.