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.
-
I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
-
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.
-
My parents got divorced, and they both remarried other people.
-
Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.
-
It's more important to promote a culture of life. What I mean by that is that I believe what we need to do is not change the law, but change hearts.
-
But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.
-
Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.
-
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.
