Daily Inspiration Quote by Herb Ritts

There is something almost disarmingly plain about Herb Ritts framing an economics major as proof of "good business sense" - and that plainness is the point. Ritts, a photographer whose images helped define the slick, high-gloss visual language of late-20th-century celebrity, is quietly puncturing the romantic myth of the artist as a pure intuitive. He is telling you he understood, early, that taste alone does not build a career; infrastructure does.

The line works because it smuggles ambition in under the cover of practicality. "I enjoyed" reads like a shrug, but it also signals control: he chose a discipline not for abstract theory but for utility. In the context of fashion and celebrity photography, where your product is not just an image but access, relationships, scheduling, and brand alignment, "business sense" is almost a creative medium. You are selling a look, negotiating a fee, building a client roster, protecting your name, managing a team. Ritts is effectively describing authorship as logistics.

The subtext is a gentle corrective to how culture credits photographers: we talk about vision, not invoices. Yet Ritts' era - the rise of supermodels, blockbuster ad campaigns, glossy magazines as global tastemakers - made the photographer a hybrid: artist, entrepreneur, and image strategist. Economics here isn't a detour from creativity; it's a quiet admission that in the marketplace of desire, the camera is only half the apparatus.