"I was working in this very bombastic style.……" — David LaChapelle
"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 in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, “Well this is the style…"
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39 Quotes by David LaChapelle
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People say photographs don't lie, mine do.
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I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's…
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I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17,…
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You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.
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Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine…
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I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone…
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I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into…
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My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and…
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I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.
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For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I…
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I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.
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