Rap Quotes - Page 70

The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a photograph must be based upon technical knowledge, guided and supported by artsitic inspiration.

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.

I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin it.

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman.

My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down.

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honoured. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life.

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

We are judged, not by the photographs we take, but by the photographs we show.

Like a therapist hairdressers are in a position of trust. We are transforming not just how a person looks but how they feel.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

The one thing that seems to be consistent through all my work that I like, and I experimented a lot, is the viewer is allowed to meditate on something that normally we don't stop and stare at, whether it's people or a cactus.

Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases, Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces.

People say I'm a disgrace to the human race. I love overweight women when they sit on my face.

Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.

How far must you go to gain respect? Um... Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own. Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.