Lorca Dicorcia Quotes

#1. Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.

Michael Beckwith

#2. In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their hands. By the last project, I was basically totally at the mercy of serendipity.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#3. The reason so many people fail to make lasting changes is that they don't commit to one path long enough to see results.

Mary Kay Mueller

#4. Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.

Quint Studer

#5. You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you.

Greg Boyle

#6. Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#7. There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#8. Photography ... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#9. Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

James Lipton

#10. Jealousy is a detestable motive.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#12. [Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#13. It's crap that you're letting on bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life.

Colleen Hoover

#14. A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

Benjamin Disraeli

#15. I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

John Mayer

#16. The deepest motivation for a lot of artists is obviously the one they all share: their great fear they are a fraud. It's a joke. In my case the problem is not that I don't question myself. It's just that I question other people even more ...

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#17. A true spiritual teacher will never guide you through the door, only to the door.

Nikki Rowe

#18. Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia