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As you are working on ideas, ...

As you are working on ideas, you are in a bubble, working on your images. What's important to me in my work, I like this idea of communicating through a piece of art so works don't have to be exchanged. They're okay and they're helpful but most importantly that the image will convey something in my mind that I was trying to communicate and then you have that connection.

David Lachapelle 47 quotes

I never wanted to be famous. ...

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

David Lachapelle 47 quotes

I love when people write abou...

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 47 quotes

The minute you point a camera...

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 47 quotes

My work is about making candy...

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines I am trying to make a large picture. I want my photographs to read like a poster.

David Lachapelle 47 quotes

I love fashion and beauty and...

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 47 quotes

The key is to photograph your...

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.

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My idea was that if I took a ...

My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to know who this person was, they could take one of these pictures and it would tell who the person was.

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I'm not condemning the Cathol...

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

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I didn’t see any difference b...

I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.

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Then I got this idea in my he...

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.

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The cruelty, war and violence...

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!

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I think we're in a post-porno...

I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

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Every culture has beauty and ...

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.

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We are in this time of corpor...

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!

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Pictures are an escape. They ...

Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They are photographed so we can worship them - so they are worthy of our worship.

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It's much harder to work for ...

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.

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I'm part of what I consider t...

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

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You can't change people's min...

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 47 quotes

I was working in this very bo...

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...

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