69 Quotes by William Klein

Fashion had no interest for me. I would take photographs in the studio. I would go back home, and my wife would say, 'What is the fashion like for this season?' And I would say, 'I have no idea.'

If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.

I like the streets. I grew up in the streets.

My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't know how to categorize me.

I saw New York differently after being in Paris for a few years.

Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America.

I was 24 years old at the time. I had no real notion of what photography was about. I had no training. By accident, I put a negative in an enlarger, and you can do many things with that negative.

I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple.

For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera.