David LaChapelle Quotes
I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.
Quotes to Explore
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
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You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.
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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
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On art: I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.
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Battle Creek has such a rich history of entrepreneurs and invention, and it seems some of that spirit had died down. I'd like to see it back.
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I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.
