Nikki S. Lee famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.
-- Nikki S. Lee

#Art #Thinking #People
My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing.
-- Nikki S. Lee

#Simple #Form
I don't want to carry big things around with me. I'm lazy. The snapshot camera, you just carry it around and take the picture. You don't need to think about anything. People in the street are not going to wait for you with a big camera. They would freak out. With a snapshot camera, they are comfortable.
-- Nikki S. Lee

#Thinking #People #Waiting
My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.
-- Nikki S. Lee

#People #Roles #Photograph
Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.
-- Nikki S. Lee

#Mean #Use #Photographer
What does it mean to go deeper? Taking pictures when you're more emotional or sorrowful, or having sex? I just want to have really boring snapshots - people just standing in front of a camera taking pictures with a smile.
-- Nikki S. Lee

#Sex #Mean #Emotional
As for the fashion world, the one thing I respect is its shallowness: it's so deep - it's so serious. It can be hard to get that kind of shallowness because of its depth and seriousness.
-- Nikki S. Lee

#Fashion #Serious #Depth

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

Nikki S. Lee famous quotes

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