Nickolas Sushkevich

“Listen, I’m not just a photographer -you don’t understand -I’m an artist who happens to use a camera. You’re not dealing with me right, you’re talking to me like I’m some photographer. I don’t know how to do what you’re asking me to do. I only know how to do what I do.” — Bob Richardson. “Ya Zaichik, a vy tipichnye dlya dannogo regiona kuchi govna” — Schnaider. “A photographer who doesn’t photograph women is no photographer, or only a third-rate one. Meeting a woman anywhere teaches you more about the world than reading Balzac. Whether it be a wife, a woman encountered by happenstance, or a prostitute, she will teach you about the world. In fact I build my life on meeting women and I have hardly read a book since primary school.” — Nobuyoshi Araki "Sex isn’t just friction and shallow fun. Sex is also the revenge on death. Don’t forget death. Don’t ever forget it. Yes, sex too is limited in its power. I know very well how limited. But tell me, what power is greater?” — Philip Roth, The Dying Animal “A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.” — Dalai Lama “I don’t think a naked body is particularly shocking or interesting… It’s not the culture I was raised in. I was not brought up in the United States. I don’t share the [attitude] that you can have graphic violence, but God forbid you see someone’s nipples.” — Anna Paquin “True love is a state of timelessness, loss of ego, surrender, defenselessness and vulnerability.” — Deepak Chopra “Дык вы чемпион, а о чемпионах говорят." — Пётр Банков, главный редактор журнала [kAk) “They copied all they could follow, but they couldn’t copy my mind, so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind.” — Rudyard Kipling “Trying to look good limits my life.” — Stefan Sagmeister “See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup Yeah buddy that's his own hair That little faggot got his own jet airplane That little faggot he's a millionaire” — Dire Stratis - Money For Nothing lyrics “I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.” — Le Corbusier “To me love and sex is the most beautiful thing on earth, you know. It’s more beautiful than a landscape, so I love to keep pictures of the girls in these private moments because they are giving you the most beautiful side of themselves. It’s like a gift from God. It’s beautiful.” — Olivier Zahm. “Oh, that is so lame. Every hot girl who can aim a camera thinks she's a photographer. Ooh, you took a black and white picture of a lawn chair and its shadow and developed it at Sav-On. You must be so brooding and deep.” — Stewie Griffin (Family Guy S5E3) . .