Rap Quotes - Page 68

Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.

Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

I have no interest in emo. I'm all about rap metal.

I can see myself retiring from rapping, but I don't think from music. After that, I think I'd just go into some other kind of music, 'cuz I'm a worldwide fan of music, all types of music, all cultures, so I'll always be involved.

Next time y'all need to find me, just rub these two wires for the doorbell.

I got beef with commercial-ass niggas with gold teeth Lampin' in a Lexus eatin' beef.

Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger

I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.

Havin' cash is highly addictive, especially when you're used to havin' money to live with.

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

Visibility is a trap.

I don't think it is even possible to define what a good photograph is, so it is difficult to instruct anybody how to make one. Beauty and aesthetics are subjective, and very much in the mind of the beholder.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you.

The magic possibility of framing a certain space and time is what brought me to photography. This process of recording elements of 3 dimensions in the flow of time, and fixing them in a 2 dimensional image, creates a new context for the elements of the photograph.

Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs.

I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.

Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite.

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.

I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck on a pin and put in a glass case. I want to see the sunlight on its wings as it flits from flower to flower and I don't care a rap what its Latin name may be.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.