Kanye West Quotes

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

I always want everything I do to be somewhat cinematic. I don't want to be the rapper that'll just post up and shoot a video anywhere with no real meaning to it.

While it's easy to sit back and cherry pick bad visual effects and blame the industry for making movies the way they are, you're really not seeing the whole picture.

There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn)

I'm very lucky that I'm not a photographer for hire - people hire me for me. I go into every commercial work with an art focus, with that lens; every brand I've worked for just lets me do whatever I want to do. I have full creative freedom.

When I'm done with my last album, I want to make a movie with Tim Burton telling the story of all of the albums connected. That's my biggest dream.

I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.

The work should talk.

Making the 'Sulfur' video continued our quest to make a video different and visually stimulating.

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want to be giving or what kind of art that you want people to see.

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

Like David Bowie, Madonna visualizes music so that her best work seems equally designed with the stage or screen in mind - not just the jukebox.

There's one right place to put the camera. I'm a big believer in that. You'd think you could put it anywhere. Nope.

I always used to say, at the end of the day, I want Brockhampton to be like Paramount or something, and you don't really know who's behind it. You just think about Brockhampton and all the types of content we provide.

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines I am trying to make a large picture. I want my photographs to read like a poster.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.

I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.