I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.

- Jeanloup Sieff

There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.

- Jeanloup Sieff

If I have caught myself struggling to remember, it was, if not a pretense, at least premature, in that I only ever used photography for my own pleasu…

- Jeanloup Sieff

I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.

- Jeanloup Sieff

The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain it. What remains is a surface that will l…

- Jeanloup Sieff

All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything els…

- Jeanloup Sieff

I have been searching for time past all my life.

- Jeanloup Sieff