I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect's nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence. — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day. — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
Extreme things are like miracles. Nothing is as boring as a person who is just okay. — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
People who hate what I make hate me, too. They must think I am a demon or some kind of evil sorcerer. Those who… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this power of… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
I could easily live in a world populated with disjunctive, bizarre things. — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay. But I could easily live… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all. — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death. — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
