Rap Quotes - Page 30

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles.

Photography is a love affair with life.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

Only photograph what you love.

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

I call my brother 'Sun' cause he shine like one.

You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.