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Top 15 Peter Lindbergh Quotes (2025 Update)

Peter Lindbergh Quote: “Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.”

1. “Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.”

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Peter Lindbergh Quote: “The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It’s important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don’t know why.”

2. “The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It’s important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don’t know why.”

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Peter Lindbergh Quote: “Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.”

3. “Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.”

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Peter Lindbergh Quote: “The woman is always more important than the clothes.”

4. “The woman is always more important than the clothes.”

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Peter Lindbergh Quote: “I bought my first camera to photograph my brother’s children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and of not being focused on yourself, and I have to say that these things have remained with me to this day. I can immediately feel when someone is putting on a camera face.”

5. “I bought my first camera to photograph my brother’s children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and of not being focused on yourself, and I have to say that these things have remained with me to this day. I can immediately feel when someone is putting on a camera face.”

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Peter Lindbergh Quote: “Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.”

6. “Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.”

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Peter Lindbergh Quote: “My feeling is that for years now it has taken a much too big part in how women are being visually defined today. Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.”

7. “My feeling is that for years now it has taken a much too big part in how women are being visually defined today. Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.”

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Peter Lindbergh Quote: “I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can’t really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don’t want any more books. I have too many books; sometimes I have to buy another copy of a book that I know I have somewhere in my house or office because I can’t find it.”

8. “I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can’t really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don’t want any more books. I have too many books; sometimes I have to buy another copy of a book that I know I have somewhere in my house or office because I can’t find it.”

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Peter Lindbergh Quote: “I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.”

9. “I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.”

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Peter Lindbergh Quote: “Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it’s much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.”

10. “Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it’s much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.”

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Peter Lindbergh Quote: “Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It’s like reading the book instead of watching the movie.”

11. “Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It’s like reading the book instead of watching the movie.”

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Peter Lindbergh Quote: “The discussion about whether photography is or isn’t art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.”

12. “The discussion about whether photography is or isn’t art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.”

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Peter Lindbergh Quote: “I didn’t take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.”

13. “I didn’t take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.”

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Peter Lindbergh Quote: “I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity.”

14. “I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity.”

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Peter Lindbergh Quote: “A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don’t believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter or sculptor who has probably never challenged the rules be an artist just because his title and an art school education automatically make him one.”

15. “A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don’t believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter or sculptor who has probably never challenged the rules be an artist just because his title and an art school education automatically make him one.”

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