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Top 25 Helmut Newton Quotes (2025 Update)

Helmut Newton Quote: “Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.”

1. “Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “The first 10 000 shots are the worst.”

2. “The first 10 000 shots are the worst.”

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Helmut Newton Quote: “I hate good taste. It’s the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.”

3. “I hate good taste. It’s the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.”

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Helmut Newton Quote: “Some people’s photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.”

4. “Some people’s photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.”

5. “My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.”

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Helmut Newton Quote: “Genius and taste don’t go together.”

6. “Genius and taste don’t go together.”

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Helmut Newton Quote: “The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.”

7. “The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.”

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Helmut Newton Quote: “Look, I’m not an intellectual – I just take pictures.”

8. “Look, I’m not an intellectual – I just take pictures.”

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Helmut Newton Quote: “It’s that I don’t like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.”

9. “It’s that I don’t like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.”

10. “I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.”

11. “I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “In the photographs themselves there’s a definite contrast between the figures and the location – I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.”

12. “In the photographs themselves there’s a definite contrast between the figures and the location – I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available.”

13. “You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available.”

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Helmut Newton Quote: “There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste.”

14. “There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “My women are always victorious.”

15. “My women are always victorious.”

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Helmut Newton Quote: “Some people’s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that’s fine. But that’s not why I do them. I’m a gun for hire.”

16. “Some people’s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that’s fine. But that’s not why I do them. I’m a gun for hire.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.”

17. “I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.”

18. “In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something – a great success. I’m very proud of it.”

19. “I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something – a great success. I’m very proud of it.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “The photographs don’t arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.”

20. “The photographs don’t arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.”

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Helmut Newton Quote: “There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually much more exciting than a woman who’s completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic.”

21. “There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually much more exciting than a woman who’s completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic.”

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Helmut Newton Quote: “It’s quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.”

22. “It’s quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.”

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Helmut Newton Quote: “What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.”

23. “What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.”

24. “The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.”

25. “I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine’s requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.”

26. “It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine’s requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.”

27. “They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.”

— Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton Quote: “Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They’ll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don’t have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.”

28. “Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They’ll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don’t have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.”

— Helmut Newton

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