Rap Quotes - Page 69

Life is once. Forever.

I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility of doing so. Something always fails, there's always a problem, and photography fails in a certain sense... This is what drives you to the next picture.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

What I do is more than just the clothes. It's getting out whatever is inside that's screaming the loudest. I wouldn't call it therapeutic. It's not that conscious.

Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.

I just consider myself an artist. I dont really rap. I dont really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make me give these shells freedom.

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

I bet Eazy E is turning over in his grave, to see that some of ya'll done made gangsta rap gay

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it, or to show that photography lies - that what it conveys is not reality but a set of cultural codes.

My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma, Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen. Question mark, you pregnant? Oh you're not? I love you, period.

It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until the recent history, permission was required for us to be able to share work at any sort of scale. We had to get permission from galleries, from ad agencies or photo editors to be able to have our work out there. And now anybody with access to a computer can show their work in 200 countries around the world.

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records a plurality of images willfully directed by the artist.

Remember when friends was friends, and LL had a Benz? And cell phones and beepers was the new trends? When Koch was the Mayor and Reagan was the Pres?

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

Photography helps people to see.

Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out of the people that I meet. But technically I don't think I'm very advanced. That never interested me.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.