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My pictures are about getting...

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

David Lachapelle 47 quotes

I have always gone to nature,...

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 47 quotes

As an artist you have a choic...

As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.

David Lachapelle 47 quotes

I shoot fantasy. If you want ...

I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

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The industrial revolution fue...

The industrial revolution fueled all of humanity, everything we do has been exploding ever since. It's been the biggest most impacting thing, not only for human beings in the last 250 million years, but also the planet, which caused the ice age, which buried the forest. It's this circle because of the industrial revolution, it's neither good or bad, it enabled all of modernization, extended our life, it changed everything. It's the most impactful thing that happened to the planet and the people.

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I am not God. But I can only ...

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.

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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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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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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 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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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!

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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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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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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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I like the Eiffel Tower in Las...

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

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