"I was always painting when I was a……" — David LaChapelle
"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. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling."
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39 Quotes by David LaChapelle
David LaChapelle has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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…
- I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's…
- 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…
- Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine…
- I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone…
- I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into…
- My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and…
- 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…
- I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.
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