Terry Richardson Quotes

• I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.

  Terry Richardson

  Light, Emotion, Mood

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• I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

  Terry Richardson

  "Good clean fun?" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2004.

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• It's not who you know, it's who you blow. I don't have a hole in my jeans for nothing.

  Terry Richardson

  Blow, Jeans, Who You Know

  "erry Richardson Responds to Sexual Harassment Accusations, Defends His 'Provocative Work'"y Amanda Hess, www.slate.com. March 14, 2014.

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• Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

  Terry Richardson

  Photography, Newton, Imagery

  "Correcting the Rumors" by Terry Richardson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2014.

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• I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

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  Cameras, Snapshots, Idiot

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• I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

  Terry Richardson

  Want, Arms, Photograph

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• People go, 'What do you want to do?' What do you want to do? What are you feeling? Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do—that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

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  Powerful, Knowing, People

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• At the beginning, people laughed at me because I was using snappies. Sometimes, a celebrity would look at my camera and go, Oh, I've got one of those. I'd feel like handing it to them and saying, Well, you take the pictures then. But I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

  Terry Richardson

  People, Cameras, Looks

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• I didn't want to be a photographer. I wanted to play music and be a rock star. I didn't have a mentor telling me to take pictures and encouraging me. But when the music thing didn't work out, I became a photographer's assistant. And then I caught the bug.

  Terry Richardson

  Work Out, Mentor, Photographer

  Source: wwd.com

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• I look fondly back on renegade days of my youth. Not the partying or anything, but it's still the spirit that I have always adhered to. When I do work that I like, it feels like a great punk song, like a burst of adrenaline. I've always kept this spirit in me, or some sort of connection to it.

  Terry Richardson

  Song, Party, Spirit

  Source: wwd.com

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• It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

  Terry Richardson

  Cancer, People, Insane

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