There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

- Catherine Opie

I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.

- Catherine Opie

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

- Catherine Opie

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

- Catherine Opie

I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.

- Catherine Opie

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

- Catherine Opie

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it m…

- Catherine Opie

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

- Catherine Opie

Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own…

- Catherine Opie