Helmut Newton

“My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.”

“I am a voyeur. I think all photographers are voyeurs.”

“I love vulgarity. I'm very attracted to the bad taste, the tacky, the over-the-top.”

“The nude is a form of landscape.”

“I think a certain amount of vulgarity is necessary in a picture.”

“I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.”

“I adore women. I mean, I'm a big flirt.”

“A fashion photograph is not a photograph of a dress; it's a photograph of a woman.”

“I like to photograph girls who are not scared of their own sexuality.”

“Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.”

“Some people's photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that's fine. But that's not why I do them. I'm a gun for hire.”

“I'm very attracted to bad taste – it's a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing but a stereotype.”

“Desire is the main thing. And danger.”

“It's a photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do.”

“I don't believe in the democratic photograph.”

“I'm interested in the power of women.”

“I try to make my pictures look as if they were taken by a lover.”

“I am a storyteller. That's what I do. I tell stories with my pictures.”

“The first 10,000 shots are the worst.”

“In my vocabulary, there are two bad words: 'art' and 'good taste.'”