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Top 15 Ryan McGinley Quotes (2025 Update)

Ryan McGinley Quote: “All I do is make photos. It’s my life.”

1. “All I do is make photos. It’s my life.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “I’m just a photographer, not a movie star.”

2. “I’m just a photographer, not a movie star.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “I have absolutely no interest in creating depressing images.”

4. “I have absolutely no interest in creating depressing images.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “I’m making the art for me first. I’m making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I’m making pictures that don’t yet exist.”

5. “I’m making the art for me first. I’m making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I’m making pictures that don’t yet exist.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “It’s weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.”

6. “It’s weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “I’ve been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.”

7. “I’ve been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “I’m interested in reaching the masses with my work. It’s one of my goals.”

8. “I’m interested in reaching the masses with my work. It’s one of my goals.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I’m the youngest of eight – my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later – so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.”

10. “I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I’m the youngest of eight – my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later – so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “I’m always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.”

11. “I’m always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It’s easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.”

12. “All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It’s easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don’t think I could do it like I used to do it.”

13. “I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don’t think I could do it like I used to do it.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I’d notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.”

14. “I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I’d notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Ryan McGinley Quote: “Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you – like financing all those early trips I took.”

16. “Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you – like financing all those early trips I took.”

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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.”

17. “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.”

— Ryan McGinley

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