Top 7 William Klein Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.”

— William Klein

2. “Anybody who pretends to be objective isn’t realistic.”

— William Klein

3. “I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn’t interest me...”

— William Klein

4. “Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn’t look like somebody else’s work.”

— William Klein

5. “I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus – searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.”

— William Klein

6. “I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.”

— William Klein

7. “What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.”

— William Klein

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