Patrick Demarchelier quotes:

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there.

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

Photography is an accident.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream,