Conservative Quote by Ari Marcopoulos

My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

— Ari Marcopoulos

I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.

— Ari Marcopoulos

I had visited New York at age 12, and I loved the big buildings and the swarms of people. At 23, I decided to…

— Ari Marcopoulos

I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.

— Ari Marcopoulos

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the…

— Ari Marcopoulos

I am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance…

— Ari Marcopoulos

In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.

— Ari Marcopoulos

Dates can be important. It's a nice way to remember when I took the photo without having to rack my brain or look in…

— Ari Marcopoulos

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't…

— Ari Marcopoulos

When you're with people that are aware of the fact that you're a photographer, they'll say, "Oh, look at that! That's something to take…

— Ari Marcopoulos

Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place,…

— Ari Marcopoulos

I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has…

— Ari Marcopoulos