Top 35 Ryan Mcginley Quotes
#2. I have absolutely no interest in creating depressing images.
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#3. I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.
John Malkovich
#4. Altogether, our modern inclination toward sloth, the easy availability of processed food, and the prevalence of life-saving medical treatments have made us a long-lived, unhealthy people.
Scott Jurek
#5. The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.
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#7. Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.
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#8. I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.
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#9. I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.
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#10. Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth it's from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.
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#11. I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.
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#12. I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.
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#13. I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.
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#14. Hi, she said, in a whispery voice, and nodded as if to confirm that she really meant it.
Aleksandar Hemon
#15. I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.
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#16. I don't like it when people are too pretty. They have to have character. Something a bit fucked up about them.
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#17. The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal truth, the actions of the other more by the practical reality of the moment. The greatness of the one lies in the absolute abstract soundness of his idea ...
Adolf Hitler
#18. Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric.
Charlaine Harris
#19. I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.
Rob Zombie
#21. My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.
Ryan McGinley
#22. I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.
Ryan McGinley
#23. You know, your family's exactly like I imagined them. Exactly like you." "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're like the blackbirds. The blondbirds." "Very funny." "They're very nice. You always talk like they're Norwegian hillbillies or something.
Jean Thompson
#24. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
Martha Moody
#25. It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.
Ryan McGinley
#26. I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.
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#27. I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.'
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#28. For all the jokes and complaints about the aches of air travel, it's pretty marvelous, if you think about it.
Tsh Oxenreider
#29. People have been making war for thousands of years, but each time it is as if it is the first war ever waged, as if everyone has started from scratch. A
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#30. If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport ... it's fun!
Jesse Harris
#31. All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It's easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.
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#32. Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#33. I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.
Ryan McGinley
#34. Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life ... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic.
Ryan McGinley
#35. You could get the words all straight and neat between the lines, but the meaning was in the way they zigzagged toward a person when you gave them life.
Tamara Valentine
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