"I would rather die than be a serious……" — David LaChapelle

"I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist."

— David LaChapelle

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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…
I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17,…
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…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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