I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.
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
If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence. - Joel-Peter Witkin
If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
People who hate what I make hate me, too. They must think I am a demon or some kind of evil sorcerer. Those who understand what I do appreciate the d… - Joel-Peter Witkin
People who hate what I make hate me, too. They must think I am a demon or some kind of evil sorcerer. Those who understand what I do appreciate the d…
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