Graffiti Quote by Bill Jay Download Open image “When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.” — Bill Jay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Graffiti Photograph Photography Plant Thinking
When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about. — David Hurn Copy Share Image
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life. — William Klein Copy Share Image
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new… — Bill Jay Copy Share
If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view… — Bill Jay Copy Share
Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while you're still half-asleep. May you spray-paint Rilke poems as graffiti on highway overpasses... My you learn to identify by name 20 flowers, 15 trees, 10 clouds, and one extrasolar planet... May you dream of taking a… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share
You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property on the upside of. Graffiti and garbage were everywhere here. They were everywhere in the city, if it came to that, but elsewhere the garbage was better quality, and the graffiti was close to being correctly spelled. The… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
“I spray the sky fast. Eyes ahead and behind. Looking for cops. Looking for anyone I don't want to be here. Paint sails and… — cath crowley Copy Share Image
Berlin is still a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way. It's a very young city. It's a vibrant city. It's an exciting city. It's a city that's also scarred by history. I think that's to be… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share
Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of… — KAWS Copy Share Image
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub,… — Banksy Copy Share Image
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then… — Banksy Copy Share Image
It's strange with graffiti. You put a lot out, but you don't get that much back because not many people know who's doing it.… — KAWS Copy Share Image
