I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of one day seeing it all. Seeing in its total form, while wearing the mask, from the distance of death. And there, in the eternal destiny, to… — 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
