David LaChapelle Quotes - Page 3

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• What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then you have an innocent Michael Jackson, who California spent millions of dollars trying to prosecute and could not do it because it was complete bulls - t.

  David LaChapelle

  California, Trying, Bulls

  Source: wwd.com

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• I love fashion and beauty and all those things, I still do but I think that it has changed the shift, that the greed is ruling the planet right now.

  David LaChapelle

  Fashion, Thinking, Greed

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!

  David LaChapelle

  Children, War, Dark

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.

  David LaChapelle

  Writing, Eye, People

  Source: museemagazine.com

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• Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped out and someone stuck it on their refrigerator, then that was a museum – someone’s private museum.

  David LaChapelle

  Museums, Ideas, Magazines

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• I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

  David LaChapelle

  Circles, Outsiders, Photographer

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• In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.

  David LaChapelle

  Fashion, Careers, People

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• I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.

  David LaChapelle

  Photograph, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.

  David LaChapelle

  Wall, Tired, School

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• I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.

  David LaChapelle

  Long, People, Consistency

  "David LaChapelle: 'Fashion, beauty and glamour are the mark of civilisation'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.

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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 always been part of my work.

  David LaChapelle

  Art, School, Photographer

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• It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and you can do anything you want. It's always easier when you have a parameter, when you have a limit. You can work within the limit and push it and walk the line, but when you're given absolutely no limits, it's harder. You must really think. It's more challenging.

  David LaChapelle

  Thinking, Challenges, Lines

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• Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

  David LaChapelle

  People, Photographer, Good Person

  "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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• People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.

  David LaChapelle

  Beautiful, Jobs, People

  "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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• My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.

  David LaChapelle

  Dream, Kids, Fighter

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• What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!

  David LaChapelle

  Kids, Games, Play

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• I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

  David LaChapelle

  Fashion, Glamour, Mark

  "David LaChapelle: 'Fashion, beauty and glamour are the mark of civilisation'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.

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• With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good and you want it to last, but it can lead to being delusional. The delusions can be as real as you thinking you can fly.

  David LaChapelle

  Real, Thinking, Drawing

  "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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• The minute you point a camera at something, you are manipulating the image, because you are cropping out whatever is to the left and right of it. The minute you put a light on someone, you are manipulating the image.

  David LaChapelle

  Light, Cameras, Minutes

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• The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

  David LaChapelle

  Ideas, Tools, Use

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• I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.

  David LaChapelle

  People, Want, Photographer

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• Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

  David LaChapelle

  Artist, Cameras, Done

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