I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.' — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world,… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
The minute you point a camera at something, you are manipulating the image, because you are cropping out whatever is to the… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
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… — David LaChapelle Copy Share
Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an… — David LaChapelle Copy Share
My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to… — David LaChapelle Copy Share
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. — David LaChapelle Copy Share
I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced. — David LaChapelle Copy Share
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… — David LaChapelle Copy Share
I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new. — David LaChapelle Copy Share
My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought… — David LaChapelle Copy Share
We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a… — David LaChapelle Copy Share
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… — David LaChapelle Copy Share
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! — David LaChapelle Copy Share
