Believe Quote by Joel-Peter Witkin

“I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this power of reality that no sculptor or painter could recreate, not even a Michelangelo or a Da Vinci.” quote by Joel-Peter Witkin — Download Open image

“I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this power of reality that no sculptor or painter could recreate, not even a Michelangelo or a Da Vinci.”

Joel-Peter Witkin

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