Demarchelier Quotes & Sayings

Let each of us examine his thoughts — Blaise Pascal

Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand. — Patrick Demarchelier

In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking. — Eric Kripke

Only amazing designers think of the truly new. — Patrick Demarchelier

When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog, — Patrick Demarchelier

I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow. — Patrick Demarchelier

The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera. — Patrick Demarchelier

When I got to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out. — Bill Hader

A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants. — David A. Bednar

The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again. — Charles Dickens

Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas this could not be more false. It is the opposite of a mirror, a deformation. — Patrick Demarchelier

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera. — Patrick Demarchelier

I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards. — Lloyd Alexander

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves. — Patrick Demarchelier

Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture. — Patrick Demarchelier

When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons. — Patrick Demarchelier

I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way. — Patrick Demarchelier

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog. — Patrick Demarchelier

Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem. — Patrick Demarchelier

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings. — Patrick Demarchelier

With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there. — Patrick Demarchelier

Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' - I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.' — Naomi Campbell

I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through. — Patrick Demarchelier

Photography is an accident. — Patrick Demarchelier

For me, the new pictures are what I'm thinking about every day. The past is the past, no? Every day is a new challenge. — Patrick Demarchelier

Every day is a dream, every day I spend with my wife. — Patrick Demarchelier

The new national campfire - radio. — Linda Ellerbee

Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid. — Patrick Demarchelier

Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast. — Patrick Demarchelier

The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone. — Patrick Demarchelier

I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies. — Patrick Demarchelier

Follow me, said Karou.
As if he could have done anything else. — Laini Taylor

When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream. — Patrick Demarchelier

Take pictures all the time. Don't worry if you take a bad photograph; you learn more by taking a bad picture than a good one. If you don't like it, study it and figure out why you don't like it. You'll learn from your mistake. — Patrick Demarchelier

Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know what to do after. — Joseph Fiennes

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day. — Patrick Demarchelier