Top 28 Quotes by David LaChapelle

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

My mum was one of those people who really wasn't allowed to be an artist, because she worked in a factory and she came from the war and all that stuff. She really has an artist's soul.

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

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.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.