Peter Lindbergh Quotes

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Peter Lindbergh

Profession : Photographer

Birth : November 23, 1944

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.

Peter Lindbergh

In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.

Peter Lindbergh

Fashion photography should say something about the stability of a certain time you live in or what kind of women you like. The most interesting thing is not what they're wearing but who they are.

Peter Lindbergh

These days, photographers have expensive contracts with actresses, but then the actresses have to have their names written in the column because nobody recognizes them. That's kind of strange.

Peter Lindbergh

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

Peter Lindbergh

You cannot say that one woman is 'more beautiful' than another, though people always do. It's so ridiculous to say that.

Peter Lindbergh

With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we've grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.

Peter Lindbergh

In 1990, when they asked me to shoot a cover for 'British Vogue' to convey my personal vision of a woman, I explained that I couldn't just photograph one single girl, because what I was looking for was a new purpose, and new feminine determination.

Peter Lindbergh

My brother had fabulous children before I had children and for some reason I wanted to photograph them, and that was when I got my first camera. Children have something totally unconscious about them. That's how I learned.

Peter Lindbergh

Duisburg was the worst industrial, depressive part of Germany. But it was great. We had nothing, but I didn't miss nothing so that was fine.

Peter Lindbergh

I've never been impressed by somebody who came in with a crocodile bag, you know?

Peter Lindbergh

I realized that I've worked quite independent from the fast-changing trends over all these years.

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You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.

Peter Lindbergh

I wouldn't have lasted two minutes as a designer.

Peter Lindbergh

People often say, 'You don't go to fashion shows? What kind of photographer are you? What the hell is the wrong with you, man?' But that's what I need in order to be who I am.

Peter Lindbergh

I was never so attracted to the glamorous world. That never impressed me.

Peter Lindbergh

Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.

Peter Lindbergh

I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.

Peter Lindbergh

When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn't exist.

Peter Lindbergh

I thought fashion was just the pretext to do images with lots of freedom and get them published in magazines. You could express your point of view, make statements about women and about what you believe in.

Peter Lindbergh