Rap Quotes - Page 19

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

For all of those who wanna profile and pose Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.

I mean even though we were going through our drama I would never wish death on nobody, you know what I'm sayin' Because there ain't no coming back from that

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.

Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers, Wannabe MC's, but really good triers, Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored, A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford!

Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a benz

I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.

God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the process.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain, You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'. And the stresses of life can take you off the right path, Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff... We gotta hold it down so we can move on past All adversities, so we can get through fast.

When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.