I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.' — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
