David LaChapelle Quotes
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My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines I am trying to make a large picture. I want my photographs to read like a poster.
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For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like more, to be more open and enjoy more things, which has given me more opportunities.
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I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.
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The minute you point a camera at something, you are manipulating the image, because you are cropping out whatever is to the left and right of it. The minute you put a light on someone, you are manipulating the image.
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There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!
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I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
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As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.
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I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn't really know about style. I didn't think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, "Well this is the style...
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The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.
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I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
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I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
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I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
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What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then you have an innocent Michael Jackson, who California spent millions of dollars trying to prosecute and could not do it because it was complete bulls - t.
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With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good and you want it to last, but it can lead to being delusional. The delusions can be as real as you thinking you can fly.
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If you watch Michael Jackson [1992] concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you'll see such uplifting beauty and a message that you won't see in any other artist of our time.
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If you want reality take the bus.
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It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and you can do anything you want. It's always easier when you have a parameter, when you have a limit. You can work within the limit and push it and walk the line, but when you're given absolutely no limits, it's harder. You must really think. It's more challenging.
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The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.
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My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.
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I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
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The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!
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Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.
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I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.
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I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus