Rap Quotes - Page 51

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.

In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

...Cops just surrounding me with pistols everywhere. They put me in the backseat of their car handcuffed, Pushed out them chests like they're big rough and tough. A cop come and said 'You'll never sell your guns now.' I said 'It doesn't matter, you'll sell them anyhow. You take the guns from me, you sell them for a fee; Anyway you put it, they'll get in the city!'

I have gradually confused photography with life.

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.

If you love something, the work will be just fine.

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

An image is better than one thousand words

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else.

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.

Everybody's got opinions on the way you're livin', But see, they can't fill your shoes.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.