“I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel c...” — Ryan McGinley Quote

I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.'

I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.

Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.