27 Quotes by Patrick Demarchelier

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it’s good to capture people when they are themselves.

I don’t take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.

I don’t stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I’m doing tomorrow.

I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way.

Take pictures all the time. Don’t worry if you take a bad photograph; you learn more by taking a bad picture than a good one. If you don’t like it, study it and figure out why you don’t like it. You’ll learn from your mistake.

My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn’t pose. He isn’t aware of the camera.

Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas this could not be more false. It is the opposite of a mirror, a deformation.

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.