Ryan McGinley Quotes - Page 2

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• Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.

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  Supportive, Mail, Helping

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• I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.

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  Bigs, Periods, Bowie

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• I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.

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  Nice, Thinking, Interesting

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• A camera gives you a purpose.

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  Giving, Cameras, Purpose

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• I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.

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  Animal, Years, Two

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• I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

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  Photography, Independent, Mind

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• 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.

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  Brother, Hero, Way

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• 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.

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  Photography, School, Years

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• I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.

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  People, Want, Photographer

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• I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

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  Photography, Trying, World

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• I'm not going to hide behind anything.

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  Behinds

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• I was voted most artistic in school.

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  School, Artistic

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• I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.

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  Art, School, Portfolios

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• The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family.

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  New York, Moving, New Family

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• I was growing up in the suburbs; I was one of eight kids. So I did have a community when I was younger, but all of my brothers and sisters were older.

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  Brother, Growing Up, Kids

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• My mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later. So when I was born, my oldest brother was 18. And my youngest brother was 11. By the time I was 7 or 8, everyone had moved out. I went from being with ten people all the time to being an only child. It really freaked me out.

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  Mom, Brother, Children

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• I couldn't wait to come to New York to reinvent myself.

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  New York, Waiting

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• I was pretty Irish Catholic Jersey, the middle of the line.

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  Catholic, Lines, Jersey

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• What I really believe is that there are no coincidences anymore.

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  Believe, Coincidence

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• There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, "Waste not, want not."

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  Dad, Airplane, Luxury

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• My dad was in the Korean War. He got shot seven times. He had seven bullet holes in him. And out of his troop of 35 guys, he was one of nine guys that came back. And when he came back from that he had seven kids in seven years.

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  Dad, War, Kids

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• The camera gives you some control.

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  Giving, Cameras

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• When I moved to New York, I was still in the closet.

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  New York, Closets, Stills

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

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  New York, Cameras

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• I really don't want to be part of just one group. I'm interested in doing everything - making music videos, shooting campaigns, having -gallery and museum shows, making movies. Everyone wants to put you in a box, and I'm afraid I'm not that kind of person.

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  Kind

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