69 Quotes by William Klein

I had no real respect for good technique because I didn't know what it was. I was self-taught, so that stuff didn't matter to me.

In fashion, you have assistants, flashes; you can make sets. There are people running around doing things for you. But I can take it or leave it.

I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened.

The digital camera takes photographs in practically no light: it will dig out the least bit of light available. I was amazed to see the results of photographs that I wouldn't take ordinarily. That's the advantage of digital photography.

When you use film, you use accidents, but there aren't any accidents with digital photography. I don't mind that it's easy. But I do mind that there is a sort of consensus with the camera and the subject and the light, and you look at something, and you photograph it, and you get what you see.

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look at and how they look at things.

My father was like Willy Loman, you know: he never really made it - and he was from a family where there were people who had made it.

Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.

I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that?