Rap Quotes - Page 52

Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

If we're all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them.

June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own therapist.

Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel that. That's what makes people feel comfortable. It is important to appear confident with clients, but it is more important to not be afraid to act like a fool, have fun, laugh and shake your hips to get people comfortable.

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.

If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that's sexy.

The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.

And from the moment that I saw you, I knew you was trouble, But I disregarded detour signs, And did not stop til you was mine. I guess God was like, 'Aight, fine.' Careful what you wish for, cause you just might get it in heaps. Try to give it back, He be like, 'Nah, that's yours to keep.'

Most rappers these days is actors, And I can't keep watching the same movie.

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

Guns turn you boys into pussies, sex change

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.

If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

Creativity needs to extend beyond the lens. Find creative ways to showcase your work and get it seen. Straight up tenacity, hard work and determination will always be part of the equation, so get to it.

There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!

If your ideas are good they rise, and if they're a bit crap they sink.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.