Rap Quotes - Page 35

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up

My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10. My target? All you wack niggaz who started rappin'.

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer.

If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography - the mendacity of photography. It’s got to have some kind of peculiarity in it, or it’s not interesting to me.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

Geography is the art of the mappable.

My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.

I’m a fan of the word selfish. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-ish, I mean I am less concerned with what people think of me. I’m not worried about how I’m perceived. Selfish has always gotten a bad rap. You should do for you.

The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.

God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.

Everything has to do with geography.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work... you can only see what you are ready to see - what mirrors your mind at that particular time.

My favorite rappers are Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.