Latest David LaChapelle Quotes from Interviews

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• There are going to be people doing the talking and people who get talked about, choose, which one do you want to be?

  David LaChapelle

  People

  Source: museemagazine.com

• I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.

  David LaChapelle

  Criticism, Spoil

  Source: museemagazine.com

• We're bombarded with images. Take the time to stop and look at something then connect with them and maybe they're thinking the same thing, I used a lot of devices to catch the eye of people who have seen a lot of stuff, having worked in advertising and in editorial. I have learned to get someone to stop and look at something, that language.

  David LaChapelle

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Source: museemagazine.com

• I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.

  David LaChapelle

  Writing, Eye, People

  Source: museemagazine.com

• As you are working on ideas, you are in a bubble, working on your images. What's important to me in my work, I like this idea of communicating through a piece of art so works don't have to be exchanged. They're okay and they're helpful but most importantly that the image will convey something in my mind that I was trying to communicate and then you have that connection.

  David LaChapelle

  Art, Mind, Important

  Source: museemagazine.com

• The industrial revolution fueled all of humanity, everything we do has been exploding ever since. It's been the biggest most impacting thing, not only for human beings in the last 250 million years, but also the planet, which caused the ice age, which buried the forest. It's this circle because of the industrial revolution, it's neither good or bad, it enabled all of modernization, extended our life, it changed everything. It's the most impactful thing that happened to the planet and the people.

  David LaChapelle

  People, Humanity, Age

  Source: museemagazine.com

• You can't change people's minds, we are not God. We can do our best to do what we do, whatever job we have to bring sort of goodness out there. But we can't change people. As an artist what I can do is to communicate!

  David LaChapelle

  Jobs, Artist, People

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

• The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!

  David LaChapelle

  Children, War, Dark

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

• I think that the world is really in very dark ages. In America this could have never been showed, we are even more lost over there than in Europe. We are very lost!

  David LaChapelle

  Dark, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

• There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!

  David LaChapelle

  Body, Ugly, Sexuality

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

• 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.

  David LaChapelle

  Artist, Light, Confusion

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

• The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years! When they switched to patriarchal society, when the male energy ruled, we became obsessed with the greed. Now we are in this time of intense greed!

  David LaChapelle

  War, Egypt, Years

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

• 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!

  David LaChapelle

  People, Care, Want

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

• I love fashion and beauty and all those things, I still do but I think that it has changed the shift, that the greed is ruling the planet right now.

  David LaChapelle

  Fashion, Thinking, Greed

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

• Every culture has beauty and decorations of body. This is not of itself superficial, this is very human. Decorating when it becomes out of balance, when it becomes about the materialism, about how many shoes, how many handbags, how expensive they are, and the status, then it's no longer just about an expression or looking beautiful, that's more about 'I HAVE MONEY, I AM RICH'. It felt out of balance.

  David LaChapelle

  Beautiful, Shoes, Expression

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

• 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.

  David LaChapelle

  Art, Kids, Giving

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

• We have the ability to make the connection, make the time to pray and meditate. We have to find our inner voice that will guide us. But we can only find it if we get quiet.

  David LaChapelle

  Voice, Connections, Quiet

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

• I have always gone to nature, since I was a kid. I was brought up in the woods, I did not have lots of friends, so I spent lot of time alone. My mother always loved to live in the forest; she loved gardens, birds and nature and taught me a deep respect for that. She taught me about growing food and vegetables and to take care of animals. They also have feelings. So nature was always something sacred for me, the place I can go, meditate and pray. It's like a church in the nature for me.

  David LaChapelle

  Mother, Kids, Garden

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

• I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].

  David LaChapelle

  Mother, Brother, Growing Up

  Source: wwd.com

• I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.

  David LaChapelle

  Church, Found, Stills

  Source: wwd.com

• I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.

  David LaChapelle

  Catholic, Church, Would Be

  Source: wwd.com

• What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then you have an innocent Michael Jackson, who California spent millions of dollars trying to prosecute and could not do it because it was complete bulls - t.

  David LaChapelle

  California, Trying, Bulls

  Source: wwd.com

• I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and martyrs are innocent. If you go on YouTube and watch interviews with Michael, you don't see a crack in the facade. There's this purity and this innocence that continued [throughout his life].

  David LaChapelle

  Believe, Cracks, Watches

  Source: wwd.com

• If you watch Michael Jackson [1992] concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you'll see such uplifting beauty and a message that you won't see in any other artist of our time.

  David LaChapelle

  Uplifting, Artist, Watches

  Source: wwd.com

• 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.

  David LaChapelle

  Angel, Thinking, Knights

  Source: wwd.com