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In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.

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David LaChapelle
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 11
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Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an egomaniac, but he's not. It's because the world turned against him.
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I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
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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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What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!
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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 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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I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
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My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might say. And don’t think about style. It’s all bullshit and surface stuff. Style happens.
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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.
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I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
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I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.
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I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
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My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.
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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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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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