David LaChapelle Quotes - Page 2

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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 find it easier to like more, to be more open and enjoy more things, which has given me more opportunities.

  David LaChapelle

  Opportunity, Photographer, Easier

  "David LaChapelle: 'I Would Rather Die Than Be a Serious Artist, or a Fake Artist'". Interview with Jeanine Celeste Pang, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2010.

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• There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!

  David LaChapelle

  Body, Ugly, Sexuality

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• I have always gone to nature, since I was a kid. I was brought up in the woods, I did not have lots of friends, so I spent lot of time alone. My mother always loved to live in the forest; she loved gardens, birds and nature and taught me a deep respect for that. She taught me about growing food and vegetables and to take care of animals. They also have feelings. So nature was always something sacred for me, the place I can go, meditate and pray. It's like a church in the nature for me.

  David LaChapelle

  Mother, Kids, Garden

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• We have the ability to make the connection, make the time to pray and meditate. We have to find our inner voice that will guide us. But we can only find it if we get quiet.

  David LaChapelle

  Voice, Connections, Quiet

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.

  David LaChapelle

  Vegas, Towers, Eiffel Tower

  "David LaChapelle’s ‘Still Life’: Celebrity Photographer On Bullying, Fame And Manic Depression (INTERVIEW, PHOTOS)". Interview with Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2012.

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• Every culture has beauty and decorations of body. This is not of itself superficial, this is very human. Decorating when it becomes out of balance, when it becomes about the materialism, about how many shoes, how many handbags, how expensive they are, and the status, then it's no longer just about an expression or looking beautiful, that's more about 'I HAVE MONEY, I AM RICH'. It felt out of balance.

  David LaChapelle

  Beautiful, Shoes, Expression

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• The adornment of the body is a human need.

  David LaChapelle

  Needs, Body, Humans

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• The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.

  David LaChapelle

  Thinking, Hands, Keys

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• 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...

  David LaChapelle

  Thinking, Color, Style

  David LaChapelle (2008). “David LaChapelle al Forte Belvedere”, Giunti GAMM

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• 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.

  David LaChapelle

  Photography, Kids, Cameras

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• You can't change people's minds, we are not God. We can do our best to do what we do, whatever job we have to bring sort of goodness out there. But we can't change people. As an artist what I can do is to communicate!

  David LaChapelle

  Jobs, Artist, People

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

  David LaChapelle

  Needs, Body, Photographer

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• I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

  David LaChapelle

  Entertainment, Provocative, Entertaining

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• There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

  David LaChapelle

  Mother, Children, Grief

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. June 22, 2011.

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• I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and martyrs are innocent. If you go on YouTube and watch interviews with Michael, you don't see a crack in the facade. There's this purity and this innocence that continued [throughout his life].

  David LaChapelle

  Believe, Cracks, Watches

  Source: wwd.com

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• I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

  David LaChapelle

  Thinking, Fragility, Decay

  "David LaChapelle’s ‘Still Life’: Celebrity Photographer On Bullying, Fame And Manic Depression". Interview with Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2012.

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• I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.

  David LaChapelle

  Art, Kids, Giving

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years! When they switched to patriarchal society, when the male energy ruled, we became obsessed with the greed. Now we are in this time of intense greed!

  David LaChapelle

  War, Egypt, Years

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• We're bombarded with images. Take the time to stop and look at something then connect with them and maybe they're thinking the same thing, I used a lot of devices to catch the eye of people who have seen a lot of stuff, having worked in advertising and in editorial. I have learned to get someone to stop and look at something, that language.

  David LaChapelle

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Source: museemagazine.com

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• Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an egomaniac, but he's not. It's because the world turned against him.

  David LaChapelle

  Angel, Thinking, Knights

  Source: wwd.com

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• I think that the world is really in very dark ages. In America this could have never been showed, we are even more lost over there than in Europe. We are very lost!

  David LaChapelle

  Dark, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.

  David LaChapelle

  Church, Found, Stills

  Source: wwd.com

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• We are in this time of corporations being so greedy and global. Some people want to call it the apocalypse. When I was born it was half the people on the planet. It has doubled in my life time. This is not sustainable for the earth; of course we are going somewhere. So we have to live preciously, we have to live each day with care!

  David LaChapelle

  People, Care, Want

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.

  David LaChapelle

  Catholic, Church, Would Be

  Source: wwd.com

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• If you watch Michael Jackson [1992] concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you'll see such uplifting beauty and a message that you won't see in any other artist of our time.

  David LaChapelle

  Uplifting, Artist, Watches

  Source: wwd.com

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