Ryan McGinley on pornography --

Pornography is totally awesome, dude. Porn’s the best, it makes life worth living. Like today I went to my porno guy, this homeless guy who collects porn that he finds in the garbage around the city, and I bought like 30 porn magazines all from the 60’s and 70’s. When I have those porno magazines in my hands I get so excited. But you know how I look at porn, I look at it as art. Everything is art. They used to do this process called dye-transfer and the colors they got were just amazing. Plus, the boys are so much cuter and more natural looking in old porn. I like weird-looking boys. I like the boys where half the people are like, “He is so beautiful” and the other half are like, “That’s the ugliest motherfucker I’ve ever seen!” That’s the one I like...

--Ryan McGinley (from an interview published in Oyster, issue 44)