I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work. Catherine Opie Read Quote
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life. Catherine Opie Read Quote
I’m very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting. Catherine Opie Read Quote
Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don’t have a real relationship to it unless it’s people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it. Catherine Opie Read Quote
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian. Catherine Opie Read Quote
I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home. Catherine Opie Read Quote
I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it. Catherine Opie Read Quote
I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave a rainbow flag proudly, but I am not a singular identity. I think a singular identity isn’t very interesting, and I’m a little bit more multifaceted as a person than that. Catherine Opie Read Quote
