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Herb Ritts
"My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked."
Phil Stern
"You can do "Hamlet" while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real."
Harry Benson
"The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse."
Arthur Elgort
"It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable."
Abe Frajndlich
“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.”
Stephanie Pfriender Stylander
"Even if I wore a hat and a wig, you can always tell it’s me."
Peggy Sirota
“I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.”
Milton Greene
“Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.”
Gilles Bensimon
“I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.”
Herb Ritts
“Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great. All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.”
Anton Perich
“My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.”
Daniel Kramer
“Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity ain’t never been photographed.”
Lee Lockwood
“A party without cake is just a meeting.”
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Sam Shaw
“If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.”
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Mark Seliger
“It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”
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Michael O'Neill
"Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying."
Herb Ritts
“My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.”
Peter Basch
“I like being famous when it’s convenient for me and completely anonymous when it’s not.”
Unknown Photographer
"He is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life. The value of having him, the film star, is that the audience gets a little more emotion out of him than they would from an unknown, because there is identification."
Bert Stern
"It's hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique. It's my family."
Harry Benson
"It costs a lot to look this cheap."
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Edward Quinn
“It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.”
Abe Frajndlich
"I’m not very accomplished at talking to people, and I certainly can’t talk to people and take pictures at the same time."
Harry Benson
"Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream."
Ron Galella
"Do you see that man? Smash his camera!"
Edward Quinn
"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."
Alfred Wertheimer
"The image is one thing and the human being is another . . . it’s very hard to live up to an image.”
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Stephanie Pfriender Stylander
“I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.”
Stephanie Pfriender Stylander
“Some things get better with age. Like me.”
Stephanie Pfriender Stylander
"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
Peggy Sirota
"There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy."
Peggy Sirota
"It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work."
Ellen von Unwerth
"Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be."
David LaChapelle
"The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star."
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Herb Ritts
“I rock, therefore I am.”
Alfred Wertheimer
“Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.”
Herb Ritts
“Just let the wardrobe do the acting.”
Philippe Halsman
"My mustache is the most serious part of my personality."
John Loengard
“If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.”
André De Dienes
"I like to feel blonde all over."
Herb Ritts
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
Alfred Wertheimer
“Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.”
Alfred Wertheimer
“Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.”
Jerry Schatzberg
“Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.”
Bob Willoughby
"I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it."
Deborah Turbeville
"Unshined shoes are the end of civilization."
Herb Ritts
"If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it."
Jerry Schatzberg
“I know it's only Rock & Roll, but I like it.”
Sophie Elgort
“If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed?”
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Jack Robinson
“I always had long legs. When I was young, I used to think, ‘Why do I look like a little pony?’”
Ron Galella
“Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.”
Peggy Sirota
“I don’t care what you think of me, unless you think I’m awesome. In which case you are right.”