Steven Klein Quotes

#1. Nothing really annoys me, I'm not that kind of person, I'm quite laid back about most things.

Mark Lawrenson

#2. I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

Steven Klein

#3. I don't see men or women as my sexual objects. I keep myself out of that equation.

Steven Klein

#4. It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#5. No decision about me without me.

Andrew Lansley

#6. I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people.

Matt Corby

#7. If I ever did have a baby, it probably would eat people.

Hayley Williams

#8. The longer I live, the more I find I don't know

Leonard Ravenhill

#9. I like what's obscure.

Steven Klein

#10. I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There's a sense that you can't get in.

Steven Klein

#11. Men work on their bodies. They want to be looked at.

Steven Klein

#12. Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

Mary McCormack

#13. Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

Umberto Eco

#14. The funny thing is that I almost find it more difficult now to take a still picture than to be behind a moving camera. I'm just so much more inspired and comfortable and confident when I have that whole operation going. I feel more connected. Snapping a moment doesn't seem relevant to me anymore.

Steven Klein

#15. I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

Philip Schultz

#16. what you do with what you have is more important than what you have.

Jim Rohn

#17. I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. I would go out at six in the morning and just take pictures.

Steven Klein

#18. I think what happens is that you do the project first, then you think about what it's about. Years later, you figure out why you've done things.

Steven Klein

#19. There was a mental institution near my house, and I would donate time teaching mentally ill patients how to do ceramics. I photographed them as well. So those were my first pictures.

Steven Klein

#20. I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.

Steven Klein