If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence.
I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this power of reality that no sculpto… - Joel-Peter Witkin
I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this power of reality that no sculpto…
- Joel-Peter Witkin
Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day. - Joel-Peter Witkin
Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.
If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence. - Joel-Peter Witkin
I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all. - Joel-Peter Witkin
I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.
To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay. But I could easily live in a world populated with th… - Joel-Peter Witkin
To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay. But I could easily live in a world populated with th…
My work would have the impact of my unreality - my doubts. - Joel-Peter Witkin
My work would have the impact of my unreality - my doubts.
My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created. - Joel-Peter Witkin
My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created.
I operate out of confusion, towards clarity. - Joel-Peter Witkin
I operate out of confusion, towards clarity.
I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death. - Joel-Peter Witkin
I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.
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