David LaChapelle Quotes

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.

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!

My Dream Since I Was A Kid Was To Show In A Gallery.

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.

I Never Want People To Be Repulsed With My Pictures; I Always Want To Attract People.

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.

I Love Fashion, Beauty, Glamour. It's The Mark Of Civilisation.

Success To Me Is Being A Good Person, Treating People Well.

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.

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.

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.

The Tools I Learned Photographing Celebrities, Now I Want To Use Them To Sell Ideas.