David LaChapelle Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus”
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“Prostitutes go to heaven. It's their clients that go to hell.”
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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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“People say photographs don't lie, mine do.”
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“My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to know who this person was, they could take one of these pictures and it would tell who the person was.”
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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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“My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might say. And don’t think about style. It’s all bullshit and surface stuff. Style happens.”
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“My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.”
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“My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.”
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“There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.”
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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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“People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.”
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“You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.”
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“I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.”
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“The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.”
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“In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.”
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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.”
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“I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.”
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“I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.”
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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 was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.”
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“Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.”
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“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.”
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“I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'”
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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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“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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“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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“You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.”
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