Rap Quotes - Page 28

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.

Success is when your signature becomes an autograph.

My life is a blunt to the head, a prayer for the dead, Run around hustlin...scared of the feds. They said death is eternal sleep, But the only thing is you ain't really sure if you prepared for the bed.

All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...

Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror, Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer. The truth is that you ugly... Not on the outside, but in the inside; On the outside, you frontin' you lovely.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

There are few things that's forever, my lady. We can make war or make babies.

Please don't bite baby, I got some bomb ass pussy from a white lady... She let me hide my weed in her titties

I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.

I’ve noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas for a lot of photographers who have only ever worked in digital, the relationship between the photographer and the person who they’re taking a picture of sort of doesn’t exist anymore. They’re looking at a computer screen as opposed to the person.

I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me. Everything influences me. I am quite different now than I was 40 years ago. For 40 years I have been traveling. I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I choose the subject. What could be more personal than that?

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

They can bite, but cannot be us, They can come and pick up little slang but cannot see us, You ought to be ashamed trying to fit in my adidas, So Run like DMC like you don't know you got no heater

For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.

I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but is connected to something that has already been.