Ari Marcopoulos Quotes
I am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance and disregard keeps me excited.
I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .
I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.
I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.
My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.
I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.
Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.
Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.
A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.
I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.
In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.