Rap Quotes - Page 24

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

Let bygones be bygones...but where I'm from, We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young.

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

I met this girl when I was ten years old, And what I loved most she had so much soul. She was old school, when I was just a shorty Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me.

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

Damn it feels good to see people up on it.

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

I wake you up and as I stare in your face, you seem stunned. Remember me? The one you got your idea from?

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.