74 Quotes by Peter Lindbergh

I've never been impressed by somebody who came in with a crocodile bag, you know?

If you're just a follower, you never know why you are doing something. Then you can't know if something is good or not. How would you know that what you thought is right, if you didn't think it?

When I start thinking about a story, I don't start by thinking about the fashion, but about who I want to photograph and what the story should be about.

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.

I realized that I've worked quite independent from the fast-changing trends over all these years.

You can only really invent something if you connect yourself to the real world - whatever that means.

My brother had fabulous children before I had children and for some reason I wanted to photograph them, and that was when I got my first camera. Children have something totally unconscious about them. That's how I learned.

When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn't exist.

I wouldn't have lasted two minutes as a designer.