Death is sad, yes, but there are some great laughs you can find there. — Laurel Nakadate Comedy Copy Share Image
People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction. — Laurel Nakadate Facts Copy Share Image
What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems. — Laurel Nakadate Love Copy Share Image
Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust... but I'm not sure how evolved… — Laurel Nakadate Brother Copy Share Image
The act of recording requires you to look at and handle and touch things, so yes - art is more than just… — Laurel Nakadate Art Copy Share Image
I find some comfort in running through the worst-case scenario in my mind and seeing how it's all going to go down. — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in… — Laurel Nakadate Awkwardness Copy Share Image
I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the… — Laurel Nakadate Friction Copy Share Image
Things might not get better but they might not get worse. There's something sort of beautiful about that. — Laurel Nakadate Beautiful Copy Share Image
I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that.… — Laurel Nakadate Birthday party Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and… — Laurel Nakadate Ability Copy Share Image
Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I think my work is optimistic - as much as it is pathetic and funny and sad and ridiculous, at the end… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is when you're just far enough away from what you desire that you can feel it. Change is the Pangaea moment.… — Laurel Nakadate Change Copy Share Image
[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Polaroid, you know, goes against everything that photography is now. You can't make multiples. Only one exists. I love that. By the… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
A lot of people have said that the main thread in my work is loneliness or just wanting to create a world… — Laurel Nakadate Life Copy Share Image
The act of looking is brave. Especially if you look at things you can't handle. I think that most people do not… — Laurel Nakadate Attention Copy Share Image
I think it's a really good thing to put yourself in a situation where you feel really uncomfortable because I think things… — Laurel Nakadate Discomfort Copy Share Image
I feel like the men who end up in my videos, their biggest crime is being lonely. They're not violent, they're not… — Laurel Nakadate Being lonely Copy Share Image
Every time I hear that somebody died I think of their body, on a steel table in a morgue somewhere. I think… — Laurel Nakadate Body Copy Share Image
I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see… — Laurel Nakadate Acts of courage Copy Share Image
I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with. — Laurel Nakadate Connection Copy Share Image
The thing about death is that it's embarrassing. No one wants to focus on it for very long. We're happy to talk… — Laurel Nakadate Death Copy Share Image
In general, I wait to be approached. I want to be the one who's hunted, I want to be the one who… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell stories that moved. Nothing stays the same, and that's why photography is important. The world flickers and changes,… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
It's always a problem - you've got to figure out a place to put your body. You've got to wake up in… — Laurel Nakadate Body Copy Share Image
There's such an energy created when the world is turned upside down, and when things are good again it's nice to take… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Everything is mediated. Everything is influenced by its maker. And happily, right? I'm so happy everyone leaves fingerprints on things whether they… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I think it's a really good idea to be bumping into all kinds of people in all kinds of ways. So you… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
The most amazing moments are when something horrible is about to happen or has just happened. The iceberg falling into the ocean.… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
A cupcake is like a great pop song. The whole world in less than three minutes. And it's impossible to have a… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I think that fact alone levels everything. Slapstick amazes me, the folly of humans today, the Ponzi schemes, giving birth to eight… — Laurel Nakadate Baby Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality… — Laurel Nakadate Art Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the… — Laurel Nakadate Awe Copy Share Image
Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism… — Laurel Nakadate Beautiful Copy Share Image
![“[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way for me - this lovely thing that blows up and is gone. It all goes back to this desire to record things before they disappear - the original reason we take pictures…” quote by Laurel Nakadate](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/524/laurel-nakadate-11877_blow_photography-ties-back-into-this-feeling_598413.jpg)
