75 Quotes by David LaChapelle

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation,

I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.

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

I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.

I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.

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.

I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn’t really know about style. I didn’t think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, “Well this is the style…

You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.