74 Quotes by Peter Lindbergh

Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image's deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.

I'm firmly convinced that true beauty only springs from the acceptance of oneself, from an awareness of who we really are.

The idea of beauty today is a bloody mess. It's really awful. You look in the fashion magazines and see all of these retouched people. Some guys called retouchers go on the computer and take away everything that you are and then call it photography. I think it's such an insult.

If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then, I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.

Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

I go out very rarely in Paris. If it's a fashion party at a nightclub, I wouldn't dream to go. People come to you for your work, not because you go to all their parties.

You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.

I thought fashion was just the pretext to do images with lots of freedom and get them published in magazines. You could express your point of view, make statements about women and about what you believe in.