Top 100 Helmut Quotes
#1. I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.
Christian Louboutin
#2. I love all Helmut Lang. I love Alexander Wang and Alice+Olivia.
Addison Timlin
#3. Calvin Klein and Donna Karan were the big American names at that point in time, Helmut [Lung] was the cool kid on the block and you had Marc Jacobs and John Galliano who starting the revival of the old fashion houses.
Roopal Patel
#4. Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.
Natasha Lyonne
#5. My Helmut Lang leather pants are my most treasured possession - I've worn them almost every day for two years, and they look good with everything.
Jessica Hart
#6. I completely agree with Helmut Kohl. I am not an advocate of the "United States of Europe," nor am I an integration fanatic.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#7. Yves Saint Laurent was my first fashion show. I wore his tuxedo. And Helmut Newton was my first photographer, in 1973. I was really very lucky. I had an amazing career.
Jerry Hall
#8. I had a very different vibe then, I was very into minimalism. I was kind of obsessed with Helmut Lang and [Martin] Margiela.
Roopal Patel
#9. [Helmut] Kohl said Europe must return to being a community committed to stability and the rule of law.
Martin Schulz
#10. I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.
Amy Lee
#11. The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour's need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.
Rob Bell
#12. Helmut, if I had known that one can make it to 90 on 60 cigarettes a day, I would have started smoking 30 years ago. [at Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's 90th birthday]
Henry Kissinger
#13. Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.
Terry Richardson
#14. My obsession when I was kid, from '85 into the '90s, was Gianni Versace. It was Helmut Lang. It was Margiela. So I said, "I cannot have Givenchy only as a luxury house; I'm going to introduce products for everybody, things that are reachable."
Riccardo Tisci
#15. I was always looking at Helmut Newton photos with the Le Smoking suit and Stella Tennant in Self Service magazine. It was never just about an ultrafeminine woman for me.
Hari Nef
#16. Helmut thought himself above common morality. Or perhaps he thought he'd managed to create his own, different from ours, better.
Donna Leon
#17. There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.
Leonard Nimoy
#18. Had been keeping Diddy, his pet tarantula, in an empty terra-cotta pot Helmut used to grow tulips. Hanna's parents nervously stood up and walked over to the doctor. "Your daughter is still unconscious," Dr. Geist said quietly. "Not much has changed.
Sara Shepard
#19. Helmut Lang does a lot of very military-influenced things. You have to find the designer that suits your body the best, and he works for me.
Kyle MacLachlan
#20. One of the cooler moments of my life was sitting front row at Helmut Lang!
Bethany Cosentino
#21. I love Maje, Rick Owens, Helmut Lang, Christopher Kane, Felder + Felder, and Sam Edelman shoes.
Amber Le Bon
#22. Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.
Helmut Schmidt
#23. A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
Helmut Jahn
#24. I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever.
Helmut Kohl
#25. The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration
Helmut Schmid
#26. What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.
Helmut Thielicke
#27. In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings.
Helmut Jahn
#28. In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate, to, to liberate the hostages in Iran and all these, all these things, the atmosphere was freezing - boycott of the Olympic Games and all that.
Helmut Schmidt
#29. When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.
Helmut Lang
#30. The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.
Helmut Schoeck
#31. I'm really bad at describing my own life.
Helmut Lang
#32. We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
Helmut Kohl
#33. In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.
Helmut Lang
#34. Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.
Helmut Kohl
#35. I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.
Helmut Newton
#37. There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste
Helmut Newton
#39. It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.
Helmut Newton
#40. To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental ... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.
Helmut Lang
#41. I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.
Helmut Jahn
#42. If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.
Helmut Lang
#43. It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.
Helmut Newton
#45. Speaking figuratively, the study of theology often produces overgrown youths whose internal organs have not correspondingly developed. This is a characteristic of adolescence. There is actually something like theological puberty.
Helmut Thielicke
#46. I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
Helmut Newton
#47. Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find that I can work when I travel and work when I run. There is nothing like, on a rainy day, to work.
Helmut Jahn
#48. The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
Helmut Newton
#49. For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.
Helmut Jahn
#50. Ronad Reagan might go down to history as a man who in the end of this administration brought about the first nuclear arms reduction treaty, the first arms reduction treaty at all in the modern world, and this is quite something.
Helmut Schmidt
#51. I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of the wisest servants of the American nation but always willing and capable of taking into account the interests of their allies, whoever: the British, or the French or the Germans or others.
Helmut Schmidt
#52. I think only a superb news or reportage picture could move me. Other photographs may leave a strong impression on me, but they don't move me.
Helmut Gernsheim
#53. 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.
Helmut Newton
#54. The army is under orders to defend every place.
Helmut Kohl
#55. We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.
Helmut Jahn
#56. Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.
Helmut Schmidt
#57. I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.
Helmut Schmidt
#58. A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters.
Helmut Thielicke
#59. Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.
Helmut Kohl
#60. When God forgives us for hitting Him with a club we should manage to put up with the pin pricks we get from our fellows.
Helmut Thielicke
#61. Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.
Helmut Thielicke
#62. The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.
Helmut Kohl
#63. Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.
Helmut Jahn
#64. Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks I won't do it.
Helmut Newton
#65. The normal reaction to tasks that overwhelm us, either because we cannot see how we can ever finish them, or because the level of difficulty is way beyond us, is frustration. Frustration breeds procrastination and welcomes distractions.
Helmut Sachs
#66. Peace must be more than the absence of war.
Helmut Kohl
#67. You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.
Helmut Jahn
#69. Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
Helmut Walcha
#70. What I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.
Helmut Newton
#71. Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.
Helmut Kohl
#72. Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that.
Helmut Schmidt
#73. Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.
Helmut Schoeck
#74. The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.
Helmut Newton
#75. My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
Helmut Newton
#76. I like rules. Without them, we don't know what to break.
Helmut Krone
#77. I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won't apply.
Helmut Jahn
#78. For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job.
Helmut Jahn
#79. Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.
Helmut Jahn
#80. Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.
Helmut Schmidt
#81. A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.
Helmut Jahn
#82. I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things,
Helmut Newton
#83. They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.
Helmut Newton
#84. President [Ronald] Reagan told me he would negotiate and negotiate and negotiate with the Soviets, and I believed him.
Helmut Schmidt
#85. George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.
Helmut Kohl
#86. Once I'm committed, I'm unafraid of the outcome.
Helmut Lang
#87. Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
Helmut Jahn
#88. The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl.
Helmut Newton
#89. You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.
Helmut Jahn
#90. The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
Helmut Newton
#91. If somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more weapons and deploy them. That's the normal way of thinking of the military, in America not only but also all over the place, but America or Russia or other countries.
Helmut Schmidt
#92. The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'
Helmut Thielicke
#93. People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris.
Helmut Newton
#94. I have always been interested in materials and in transforming them.
Helmut Lang
#95. When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.
Helmut Jahn
#96. Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.
Helmut Newton
#97. Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.
Helmut Newton
#98. It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
Helmut Jahn
#99. I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.
Helmut Newton
#100. Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.
Helmut Schmidt
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