Rap Quotes - Page 45

I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do.

I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves.

At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves, to unlock the artist. Those of us who become photographers are never satisfied with just looking at someone else's expression of something that is dear to us. We must produce our own images, instead of buying postcards and photo books. We seek to make our own statements of individuality.

Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

I am a grateful grapefruit.

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through the human interest of the situation photographed or by calling our attention to some commonplace but fascinating thing we have never noticed before or it can be achieved by looking at an everyday thing in a new interesting way.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

I'm down for you, so ride with me. My enemies your enemies, Cause you ain't ever had a friend like me.

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes; Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.

The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.