David Wojnarowicz

Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.

— David Wojnarowicz

“Hell is a place on earth. Heaven is a place in your head.”

— David Wojnarowicz

To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in…

— David Wojnarowicz

I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their…

— David Wojnarowicz

I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay…

— David Wojnarowicz

Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition,…

— David Wojnarowicz

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

— David Wojnarowicz

“I felt that blush in my chest as we talked stupid talk never quite revealing our queerness to each other but somehow…

— David Wojnarowicz

“There is a tendency for people affected by this epidemic to police each other or prescribe what the most important gestures would…

— David Wojnarowicz

“I remembered a friend of mine dying from AIDS, and while he was visiting his family on the coast for the last…

— David Wojnarowicz

“I'm looking for a path out of the emptiness but all I see is the great wide earth in various formations.”

— David Wojnarowicz

No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the…

— David Wojnarowicz

“With all these occurrences of death facing me, I thought about issues of freedom. If government projects the idea that we, as…

— David Wojnarowicz

I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find…

— David Wojnarowicz

“Sometimes I come to hate people because they can’t see where I am. I’ve gone empty, completely empty and all they see…

— David Wojnarowicz

“I lean back and tilt my head so all I see are the clouds in the sky. I'm looking back inside my…

— David Wojnarowicz

“What I feel is the momentary shock of realizing that most of the wood, metal and plastic fixtures, the sinks, lampshades, the…

— David Wojnarowicz

Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what…

— David Wojnarowicz

I've been in rage all my life at this thing we call 'society'

— David Wojnarowicz

“A number of months ago I read in the newspaper that there was a supreme court ruling which states that homosexuals in…

— David Wojnarowicz

“In loving him, I saw a cigarette between the fingers of a hand, smoke blowing backwards into the room and sputtering planes…

— David Wojnarowicz

“When I put my hands on your body on your flesh I feel the history of that body. Not just the beginning…

— David Wojnarowicz

... all of my life I've made things that are like fragmented mirrors of what I perceive to be the world. As…

— David Wojnarowicz

Bottom line, if people don't say what they believe, those ideas and feelings get lost. If they are lost often enough, those…

— David Wojnarowicz