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Ryan McGinley Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“The thing I always search for, and the thing I like about nature, is its timelessness. It’ll always be the same. You can look at a photo and not be able to place it in time.”
— Ryan McGinley, purple MAGAZINE — F/W 2008 issue 10
Tagged: Photography, Nature, Beauty of Nature, Natural World, Timelessness Of Nature
“Don’t stand around too long having conversations about it. Do it. Refine it. Do it more. Try it a different way. Keep at it until you break through to the next level.”
— Ryan McGinley, Parsons Commencement Speech, 2014
Tagged: Action, life advice, Just Do It, Quote of the Moment
“Use the camera to take what you know that others don’t, what you can access that others can’t, and the people or things you connect with, to construct your own world.”
— Ryan McGinley, Parsons Commencement Speech, 2014
Tagged: Photography, Taking Photos
“My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn’t exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.”
— Ryan McGinley, A Young Man With an Eye, and Friends Up a Tree
Tagged: Photography
“I love nature because everything is out of my control. I rely on the elements for something unexpected to happen. I never know what kind of photo I'm going make until Mother Nature's unpredictability shows me the way.”
— Ryan McGinley, DVEIGHT | THE ART ISSUE
Tagged: Nature, Losing Control, Natural Forces
“My goal is for people to look at my pictures and not think about how they’re made, but just to think about how they look.”
— Ryan McGinley, purple MAGAZINE — F/W 2008 issue 10
Tagged: Photography
“When I’m looking through the viewfinder, I’m in another place.”
— Ryan McGinley, A CONVERSATION BETWEEN RYAN MCGINLEY AND CATHERINE OPIE, JANUARY 27, 2010
Tagged: Photography, Photographing as Displacement
“If you work hard enough, you’ll experience the happy accidents that are the art.”
— Ryan McGinley, Parsons Commencement Speech, 2014
Tagged: Making Art, How To Make Art, Working Hard, Work Ethic
“You've got to have that compulsive intensity and obsession to stand out from the crowd.”
— Ryan McGinley, Bill Powers, 2014(Interview)
Tagged: Differentiating, Rise Above, Passion
“I never thought I was going to be a photographer. For four years I was just taking pictures because I was really into it and that’s just what I did. Then at the end of 2001, once I started to show my work a little and right around the time index published my first book, I remember saying to myself, ‘Oh, I’m actually a photographer now!’”
— Ryan McGinley, AN INTERVIEW WITH RYAN MCGINLEY
Tagged: Becoming A Photographer
“I have to remember everyday to keep pushing myself and putting myself in uncomfortable situations. To not stop looking and to keep exploring beauty. I've been working 12 years now at a 24/ 7 pace. I've got to always remember not to become too comfortable for fear of becoming irrelevant. You've got to watch out for that creeping privilege.”
— Ryan McGinley, Bill Powers, 2014(Interview)
Tagged: Art, Photography
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