Quotes from Patrick Demarchelier

When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.

Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.

Photography is an accident.

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.

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.

Only amazing designers think of the truly new.

I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.

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.

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

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.

I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

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.

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.

The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.