William Klein Quotes

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.

I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.

I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.

I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the right track.