Rap Quotes - Page 64

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher.

... while in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the loss of data, degradation, and noise; the noise which is even stronger than that of traditional photography.

Think about it, if you was there standing looking at me. What would you do, if I hit your face with dog doo-doo?

Being a black rapper is like being a Southern, socialite woman: You're always worried about appearances.

Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson, Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson.

Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible

Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.

I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.

I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the window, but if you become involved with the lives of the actors and forget that you are seeing mechanical devices on a huge screen - forget the make-believe - this is the job of the director to involve the audience with the actors.

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.

Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.

For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.

Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.

Why you don't wanna let him talk? You mad, you maaad, you maaaaad.