Rap Quotes - Page 31

Real slow hits from the bong... Make me feel like Cheech, And I'm kickin' it with Chong.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces.

Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend.

I come prepared with the white suit and stethoscope, Listen to your heartbeat, delete beep beep BEEP. Your insurance is high, but my price is cheap.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...

Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of a primal universal presence. I have dedicated my life and creative energy to capturing these transcendent moments in which a connection is made between the subject, the photographer, and the viewer.

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.

Music just ain't what it used to; We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

I was always taught my do's and don'ts: For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't.

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.

The camera can photograph thought.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.

The list of photographs that I am missing while I sit on airport runways, teach classes or spend hours in the studio makes my head spin. It's almost as if I can actually sense all the great pictures that I'm missing at a given moment. It's times like those that remind me to be very productive when I do get behind-the-camera time.