In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their h…

- Philip-Lorca Dicorcia

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It'…

- Philip-Lorca Dicorcia

The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it.

- Philip-Lorca Dicorcia

Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

- Philip-Lorca Dicorcia

[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like…

- Philip-Lorca Dicorcia

The deepest motivation for a lot of artists is obviously the one they all share: their great fear they are a fraud. It's a joke. In my case the probl…

- Philip-Lorca Dicorcia

Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.

- Philip-Lorca Dicorcia

Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.

- Philip-Lorca Dicorcia