Quotes by David LaChapelle

David LaChapelle

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.

Artist

Confusion

Light

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.

Art

Important

Mind

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.

Beautiful

Expression

Shoes

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.

Easier

Opportunity

Photographer

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.

Art

Giving

Kids

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

Believe

Photographer

Strong

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].

Believe

Cracks

Watches

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.

Art

Differences

Thinking

I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I’ve taken a little from both [traditions].

Brother

Growing Up

Mother

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.

Garden

Kids

Mother

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Age

Angel

Art

Artist

Attention

Beautiful

Believe

Bigger Than Life

Body

Brother

Bulls

Bullshit

Bus

Buying Things

California

Cameras

Candy

Care

Careers

Catholic

Challenges

Children

Church

Circles

Clients

Color

Confusion

Connections

Consistency

Cracks

Crafts

Criticism

Dark

Decay

Differences

Done

Drawing

Dream

Easier

Editors

Egypt

Eiffel Tower

Entertaining

Entertainment

Europe

Everyday

Expression

Eye

Fantasy

Fashion

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Quotes by David LaChapelle

David LaChapelle

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.

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.

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.

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

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.

I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I’ve taken a little from both [traditions].

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