Jeanloup Sieff famous quotes

There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.
-- Jeanloup Sieff

#Moments #Reason #Mood

I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.
-- Jeanloup Sieff

#Two #Adjectives #Proud

I have been searching for time past all my life.
-- Jeanloup Sieff

#Past

I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.
-- Jeanloup Sieff

#Believe #Serious #Defense

All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything else which interests me. In any case, the nude is a form of landscape. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment, on the mood of the model.
-- Jeanloup Sieff

#Photography #Curiosity #Body

The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain it. What remains is a surface that will live its own life, that will belong to everybody. I accept that surface.
-- Jeanloup Sieff

#Share #Accepting #Surface

If I have caught myself struggling to remember, it was, if not a pretense, at least premature, in that I only ever used photography for my own pleasure - even if I then bewailed the vanished pleasure which my pictures brought back to me.
-- Jeanloup Sieff

#Photography #Struggle #Remember

There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.

Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason.

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted.

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.