Latest Ryan McGinley Quotes from Interviews

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• I got a lot of attention when I was really young, and people have it in their minds that I'm still 24 years old. So I made the decision that I had photographed everything I was interested in in New York. New York is a town you have to embrace, but you also need to leave. I may revisit it one day, but for me it's a place to live rather than one to make work in.

  Ryan McGinley

  People, Decision, Mind

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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.

  Ryan McGinley

  Kind

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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.

  Ryan McGinley

  New York, Cameras

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

  Ryan McGinley

  Remember, Excited, Documents

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

  Ryan McGinley

  New York, Closets, Stills

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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.

  Ryan McGinley

  Thinking, People, Cameras

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• The camera gives you some control.

  Ryan McGinley

  Giving, Cameras

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• I think a lot about control nowadays, and I really want to let go and just be more in the moment.

  Ryan McGinley

  Letting Go, Thinking, Want

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• A camera gives you a purpose.

  Ryan McGinley

  Giving, Cameras, Purpose

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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.

  Ryan McGinley

  Cameras, Faces, Photographer

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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

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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

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• You find the people that you need to find. There's this gravitational pull.

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  People, Needs

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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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• Just being friends with people now for over 15 years, you realize what we all came out of. What we came out of was the intense feeling of growing up. It sounds kind of cliché, but it's true.

  Ryan McGinley

  Growing Up, Years, People

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• A lot of my close friends have committed suicide or died of heroin overdoses.

  Ryan McGinley

  Suicide, Close Friends, Heroin

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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.

  Ryan McGinley

  New York, People, Admire

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• Growing up, my room was covered in posters. I was like, "I want to make posters."

  Ryan McGinley

  Growing Up, Want, Rooms

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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.

  Ryan McGinley

  Book, Zines, Giving

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• When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic design, you were all taking the same classes, but the photographers just went straight into photography.

  Ryan McGinley

  Photography, Art, Kids

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• I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

  Ryan McGinley

  Graffiti, Crime

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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.

  Ryan McGinley

  Wall, College, White

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• I didn't have to be friends with people who were into pop music.

  Ryan McGinley

  People, Pops, Pop Music

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• I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.

  Ryan McGinley

  Art, Jersey, Starbucks

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• A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."

  Ryan McGinley

  Art, School, Support You

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