Rap Quotes - Page 54

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

Atlanta is not the South.

Get burnt like a candle, very hard to handle, Do miracles in Nikes like Jesus did in sandals.

Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create.

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me

Polaroid, you know, goes against everything that photography is now. You can't make multiples. Only one exists. I love that. By the way, while we've been talking I've now seen a total of three people I know walking on 8th street.

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

Do you ever think about when you outta here? Record deal and video, outta here!? Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?

Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly; They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

Don't talk the talk, if you can't walk the walk, Phony niggaz are outlined in chalk

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.

They claim we're products from the bottom of Hell, But the black is back, and it's bound to sell. Picture us coolin' out on the Fourth of July... And if you heard we were celebratin', that's a worldwide lie.

I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

What is creativity? Having spent my life in one creative endeavor after another, I can tell you it's not something magical or mystical. It's something very simple. To me, it's just a moment - a moment where we look at the ordinary, but we see the extraordinary. It happens all the time in my photography.

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

...The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th. God bless his soul, rest in peace, kid. It's because of him now at least I know what beef is.