Ryan McGinley Quotes

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• You have to be able to observe life as if you were a camera all the time, constantly looking at light and the way that things are placed and the way people hold themselves. You need the ability to see something in someone or something that no one else really sees and be able to bring that to light. Basically, you have to be an obsessive crazy person.

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  Crazy, Light, People

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• My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

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  Beautiful, Fun, Real

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• In a lot of ways I look at these old photos, and I don't know if I would have been able to communicate with these people on this level if I didn't have a camera. I think I would still be so shy.

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  Thinking, People, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on the street, so I'd make these portraits of people. I'd isolate them on a white wall, make a silkscreen of it, and do these portraits in bathrooms and all around. That's how I started the Polaroids.

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  Wall, College, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

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  Artist, People, Looks

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• It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

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  Divorce, Photographer

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• I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.

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  Art, Want, Firsts

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• The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.

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  New York, People, Admire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was never raised with anybody telling me that gay was bad.

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  Gay, Raised

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just remember how excited I was to have a boyfriend and be in love and to document it.

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  Remember, Excited, Documents

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was never told, "Fags are going to hell." You just didn't talk about it.

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  Hell

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was studying graphic design at the time, when negative scanners and all that stuff was coming out, and you could do it all in your apartment. So I would shoot, make contact sheets, scan all the cool negatives, and make all these zines and books of my photos to give to my friends. I was really into zine- and bookmaking from skate culture.

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  Book, Zines, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in you and who will help you find that time where you don't have to think about a job but just making work. If I didn't have those people in my life, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in.

  Ryan McGinley

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Dan Colen, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.

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• I spent all of my money on film. I remember I would do these set-design jobs or transcribe or just anything to get, like, a $100 check and go immediately to Adorama and buy expired film.

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  Jobs, Design, Remember

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All I do is make photos. It's my life.

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• Whatever emotions you're going through, you somehow seek out the people that are going through similar emotions or that maybe have something you need.

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  People, Needs, Emotion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.

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  Dream, Reality, Atmosphere

  "Watch a New Video for Sigur Rós' "Varúð", Directed by Ryan McGinley" by Crrie Battan, pitchfork.com. July 31, 2012.

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• I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.

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  Mom, Brother, Teenager

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• I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.

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  Teenager, Moss, Kate

  Interview with with Gerald Matt, Synne Genzmer, www.americansuburbx.com. September 2007.

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• The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.

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  Cameras, Faces, Photographer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic.

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  Intimate Moments, People, Magic

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• 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.

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  Brother, Adventure, People

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• I have absolutely no interest in creating depressing images.

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  Depressing, Creating, Interest

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• I'm just a photographer, not a movie star.

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  Stars, Photographer, Movie Star

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• I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

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  Goal, Reaching, Mass

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