Terry Richardson Quotations

It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

At the beginning, people laughed at me because I was using snappies. Sometimes, a celebrity would look at my camera and go, Oh, I've got one of those. I'd feel like handing it to them and saying, Well, you take the pictures then. But I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

It's not who you know, it's who you blow. I don't have a hole in my jeans for nothing.

People go, 'What do you want to do?' What do you want to do? What are you feeling? Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do—that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

Maybe a connection here is yet to be clearly established, but it is also yet to be ruled out.

The water started coming, and a neighbor chopped us out of the roof. I don't know how he knew to do that. He took us in a rowboat to a school on Monday.

Sam has his choices. He goes to the right guy a majority of the time. We just stay patient and know there's enough plays and enough game time to get the ball spread around.