12 Quotes by Oliviero Toscani

Some people look at a picture for thirty seconds, some for years. It doesn’t really matter because a picture is like life. You take out of life as much as you are able to take out of life, just as you take out of a picture as much as you can take out of a picture...

A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.

We become very impressed when we get to look inside ourselves, into pictures. That’s the relationship we have with pictures. Every picture is a piece of the inside of ourselves.