Rap Quotes - Page 32

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.

Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached.

There are no great enologists. Only good grapes

Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the very process forces me to connect with the world. When you make four-hour exposures in the middle of the night, you inevitably slow down and begin to observe and appreciate more what's going on around you. In our fast-paced, modern world, it's a luxury to be able to watch the stars move across the sky.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

Takes a long time to happen so fast... To realize that your future is somebody else's past

You have to be interested in culture to design for it.

You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.

I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

Photography is just light remembering itself.

Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains, Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims, The will is much stronger than the flesh, And it only gets stronger when you going through duress, Imagination is the factory that makes legends... Close Your Eyes and dream B.I.G. like Faith Evans.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.