Helmut Newton Quotes

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

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

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.

I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older.

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.