David LaChapelle Quotes
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
Quotes to Explore
-
In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
-
Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
-
I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
-
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
-
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
-
Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
-
I really don't believe in magic.
-
The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
-
I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
-
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
-
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
-
If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.
-
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
-
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
-
For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
-
When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'
-
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.
-
My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
-
I am trying to get folks outside the hip-hop culture to understand why, despite the negatives, young people find hope and refuge in hip-hop. I'm hoping that young people immersed in the culture will work harder to capitalize on the possibilities for great social change that hip-hop represents as a national unified cultural youth movement.
-
When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
-
Without humility there can be no humanity.
-
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
