Jerry Schatzberg quotes

I was working in a family business-the fur business - and I hated it. I was reading the New York Times want ads, and I saw a photographer's assistant job in Vogue. Things went from there.
-- Jerry Schatzberg

#Reading #Vogue #Hated

Alexander Liberman was very smart, very elegant. At the end, he didn't have much patience with me because I was a young, anxious, nervous photographer. I worried that I was copying too many other people. And he said, "It's all right to copy people, as long as the people you copy are good and you copy them well."
-- Jerry Schatzberg

#Smart #Long #People

Americans have a certain idea of what films are and the French have a much deeper sense of cinema. The cinémathèque is like a temple for them. And the people who write about it are really intellectuals. It's just a sensibility that they appreciate it.
-- Jerry Schatzberg

#Writing #People #Appreciate

I took Alexey Brodovitch course at the New School. He taught me something that I've always remembered: After we did the initial assignment, he contradicted what he had said the first week, and I said, "Okay." The next week, he contradicted what he had said the second week. We went through 10 weeks of contradicting, and I thought maybe he was drunk. At the end, he said, "You may think I've contradicted myself, but there's no one way to do anything."
-- Jerry Schatzberg

#School #Thinking #Drunk

If you go to shows today, you have 16 celebrities sitting there, all these people who have nothing to do with fashion.
-- Jerry Schatzberg

#Fashion #People #Today

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.

I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

I'm out of vogue, I'm out of touch. I fell to fast - I feel too much.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.