David LaChapelle Quotes

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• People say photographs don't lie, mine do.
• I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
• I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my…
• I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me.…
• You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.
• I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn’t really know about style. I didn’t think about it: I did what I was interested…
• Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped out and someone…
• I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art,…
• I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was…
• My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to know…
• I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.
• For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like…
• I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.
• In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.
• The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.
• I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
• I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
• The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.
• People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters…
• I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation,

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