Two quotes by Ryan McGinley

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)

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I think masturbating is the most creative that you'll ever be. You're creating this whole scenario in your head for just, say, five to 10 minutes, just to please yourself. And people do it every day and don't realize how it's a total art form.

--Ryan McGinley, Oyster Magazine, 2003 (issue 44)