Patrick Demarchelier Quotes

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.

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

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.

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're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.

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.

I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.

My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

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.

Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.

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.

Every day is a dream, every day I spend with my wife.

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.

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.

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.