Patrick Demarchelier
Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.Collection: Beauty
Only amazing designers think of the truly new.Collection: Amazing
I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.Collection: Beauty
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.
My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
Photography is an accident.
Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.
I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog.Collection: Dog
Take pictures all the time. Don't worry if you take a bad photograph; you learn more by taking a bad picture than a good one. If you don't like it, study it and figure out why you don't like it. You'll learn from your mistake.Collection: Mistake
Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas this could not be more false. It is the opposite of a mirror, a deformation.Collection: Photography
I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.Collection: Eye
I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.Collection: Dog
I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way.Collection: People
My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.Collection: Dog
For me, the new pictures are what I'm thinking about every day. The past is the past, no? Every day is a new challenge.Collection: Past
Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.Collection: World
With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there.Collection: Dream
Every day is a dream, every day I spend with my wife.Collection: Dream
Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem.Collection: Sex
The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.Collection: Photography