Rap Quotes - Page 59

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest.

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.

Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

I feel like a lot of niggas in the rap game ain't do what I did in these streets and a lot of niggas in the streets ain't do what I did in the rap game. I still feel like a lot of people don't feel where we come from.

Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been? Understand where I'm coming from?

We don't take pictures with cameras, we take them with our hearts and minds.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.