I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes a passionate commitment to photography as both an art form and a self-identity.
David Lachapelle expresses a deep love and immediate connection to photography, highlighting that being a photographer is not just a profession but a fundamental part of his identity. He values the craft of photography, portraying it as a powerful means of self-expression and creativity.
In practice
In a photography workshop to inspire students about their passion for photography.
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
The best stories come out of the truth.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.
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