Top 27 Quotes & Sayings by Patrick Demarchelier
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French photographer Patrick Demarchelier.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.
When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.
Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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.
When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
Photography is an accident.
I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there.
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.
I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.
I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.
The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.
My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem.
When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog.
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.
Every day is a dream, every day I spend with my wife.
Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.
For me, the new pictures are what I'm thinking about every day. The past is the past, no? Every day is a new challenge.
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.
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