I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it.

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• David LaChapelle:

  I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of

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  I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

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  As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you th

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  I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it

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  I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.