Top 15 David LaChapelle Quotes

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

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.

As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you’ll live forever.

I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.

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.

My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don’t see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

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.

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.

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It’s the mark of civilisation.

You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, ‘You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.’

I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it.

I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

There’s nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.