Juergen Teller

“Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful.”

“I don't try to be original; I just always want to do something that excites me.”

“Quite frankly, if I didn't enjoy the fashion industry, then I wouldn't continue to do it.”

“I think my moral ground is very much intact.”

“You can't get away from fashion. The whole beauty thing is everywhere. It's just really weird.”

“I always work with two cameras. Its kind of like I'm hypnotizing the subject with the flashing. It's a bombardment of action, flashes, and I think it helps them to ease into the process.”

“I had no visual imagination as a child. I liked playing football. That was it.”

“Back in 2000, I didn't have a mobile phone.”

“My father and one of my grandfathers died very early, and female figures have been an influential part of my life.”

“I would never ask somebody to do something where I felt that it's not right or it puts someone in an uncomfortable position.”

“I have a way of opening up people and gaining their trust. I think they can see my vulnerability because I'm unafraid to admit if something doesn't quite work.”

“I think the range of my life shows in my work.”

“I wasn't aware it could make me rich or famous. I just wanted to take pictures.”

“It's important to be involved in different things for me.”

“When I was a child, I always went to my grandmother's house in Nuremberg for Christmas. My uncle would leave the room, saying he needed the toilet, and then he would reappear dressed as Santa Claus. I was really scared - I'd have to go and hide behind an armchair.”

“I think my strength is to act instinctively, really quickly, on what I believe, what I see in this person. A proper portrait. I wouldn't dream of doing something inappropriate for that person. I guess I make the person comfortable around me.”

“One day, I'll be photographing Kate Moss in Paris, then I'll be on Stephanie Seymour's ranch with her hundred horses wondering what exactly it is I'm doing there.”

“I cycle whenever possible around London. But I travel first class when I need to fly.”

“I have a Mercedes. I wear a Rolex watch. I have no problem with the selling of things.”

“I take it very seriously, the photographic craft.”