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Top 25 Herb Ritts Quotes (2025 Update)

Herb Ritts Quote: “Many people who excel are self-taught.”

1. “Many people who excel are self-taught.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn’t happen.”

2. “Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn’t happen.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “I’m pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.”

3. “I’m pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “It’s important to let your subjects be themselves.”

4. “It’s important to let your subjects be themselves.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.”

5. “I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “Well, I liked it – that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn’t think of it in terms of a career. I didn’t really know; I didn’t really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.”

6. “Well, I liked it – that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn’t think of it in terms of a career. I didn’t really know; I didn’t really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.”

7. “The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “To me it’s just going for the moment that counts. Sometimes, I’ll have all the elements there, and I like to play and push something, and to me, in the end, you do achieve things that you’re not aware of in the beginning, even though you’re there trying to get them.”

8. “To me it’s just going for the moment that counts. Sometimes, I’ll have all the elements there, and I like to play and push something, and to me, in the end, you do achieve things that you’re not aware of in the beginning, even though you’re there trying to get them.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they’re missing the key element.”

9. “I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they’re missing the key element.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.”

10. “I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “Coming from California and growing up where I did, I’ve always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.”

11. “Coming from California and growing up where I did, I’ve always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.”

12. “I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “I like form and shape and strength in pictures.”

13. “I like form and shape and strength in pictures.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.”

14. “Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn’t impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.”

15. “I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn’t impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.”

16. “Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “Even though I didn’t get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.”

17. “Even though I didn’t get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.”

18. “Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “I’d go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I’d take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That’s how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.”

19. “I’d go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I’d take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That’s how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.”

20. “For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “Each time I did assignments or editorials, I realized that I wanted to do something more. I saw that it wasn’t just about the clothes.”

21. “Each time I did assignments or editorials, I realized that I wanted to do something more. I saw that it wasn’t just about the clothes.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “It’s always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you’re on, you can make a photograph that you’ll appreciate.”

22. “It’s always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you’re on, you can make a photograph that you’ll appreciate.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it’s about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I’ve always been comfortable with being gay.”

23. “I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it’s about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I’ve always been comfortable with being gay.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.”

24. “What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.”

25. “Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do.”

26. “And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do.”

Herb Ritts Quote: “Today a lot of things are so celebrity-oriented; it’s only because it’s celebrity and the photograph is lost. To me it’s important to have an image that is a photograph first, not about necessarily who that person is.”

27. “Today a lot of things are so celebrity-oriented; it’s only because it’s celebrity and the photograph is lost. To me it’s important to have an image that is a photograph first, not about necessarily who that person is.”

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