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 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

I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.

- Terry Richardson

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

- 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.

- Terry Richardson

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

- 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…

- 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.…

- Terry Richardson