Quotes by Ryan McGinley

Ryan McGinley

A camera gives you a purpose.

Cameras

Giving

Purpose

A lot of artists need structure.

Artist

Needs

Structure

A lot of my close friends have committed suicide or died of heroin overdoses.

Close Friends

Heroin

Suicide

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, “Art school, I don’t know. We’ll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim.”

Art

School

Support You

Actually, I didn’t study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

Photography

School

Years

All I do is make photos. It’s my life.

All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It’s easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.

Adventure

Brother

People

Everyone I’m photographing, I feel like I’m remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

Brother

Hero

Way

Everyone started to have a camera. That’s when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

Cameras

New York

From 8 to 19, I was skateboarding every single day. That was my life. I worked at a skate shop. I watched skate videos.

Shops

Skateboarding

Video

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Artist

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Atmosphere

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Behinds

Believe

Bigs

Book

Bowie

Brother

Cameras

Catholic

Children

Close Friends

Closets

Coincidence

College

Crazy

Creating

Crime

Dad

Decision

Depressing

Design

Divorce

Documents

Dream

Emotion

Excited

Faces

Firsts

Fun

Gay

Giving

Goal

Graffiti

Growing Up

Hell

Helping

Hero

Heroin

Home

Independent

Interest

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Quotes by Ryan McGinley

Ryan McGinley

A camera gives you a purpose.

A lot of artists need structure.

A lot of my close friends have committed suicide or died of heroin overdoses.

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, “Art school, I don’t know. We’ll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim.”

Actually, I didn’t study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

All I do is make photos. It’s my life.

All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It’s easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.

Everyone I’m photographing, I feel like I’m remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

Everyone started to have a camera. That’s when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

From 8 to 19, I was skateboarding every single day. That was my life. I worked at a skate shop. I watched skate videos.

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