At the beginning, people laughed at me because I was using snappies. Sometimes, a celebrity would look at my camera and go, Oh, I've got one of those. I'd feel like handing it to them and saying, Well, you take the pictures then. But I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.
I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures. - Terry Richardson
I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.
- Terry Richardson
It's not who you know, it's who you blow. I don't have a hole in my jeans for nothing. - Terry Richardson
It's not who you know, it's who you blow. I don't have a hole in my jeans for nothing.
I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create. - Terry Richardson
I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.
It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymo… - Terry Richardson
It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymo…
Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography. - Terry Richardson
Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.
I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras. - Terry Richardson
I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.
I look fondly back on renegade days of my youth. Not the partying or anything, but it's still the spirit that I have always adhered to. When I do wor… - Terry Richardson
I look fondly back on renegade days of my youth. Not the partying or anything, but it's still the spirit that I have always adhered to. When I do wor…
I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms. - Terry Richardson
I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.
I didn't want to be a photographer. I wanted to play music and be a rock star. I didn't have a mentor telling me to take pictures and encouraging me.… - Terry Richardson
I didn't want to be a photographer. I wanted to play music and be a rock star. I didn't have a mentor telling me to take pictures and encouraging me.…
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