Leonard Nimoy quotes Born: 03/26/1925 Country: usa

• A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints. (Leonard Nimoy) [film]
• But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say. (Leonard Nimoy) [art/think/take]
• For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me. (Leonard Nimoy)
• I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time. (Leonard Nimoy) [time]
• I am not Spock. (Leonard Nimoy)
• I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product. (Leonard Nimoy) [being/process/start/product]
• I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old. (Leonard Nimoy)
• I certainly don't live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment. (Leonard Nimoy) [housing]
• I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it. (Leonard Nimoy) [day]
• I have shot a lot of pictures that I am very pleased with, but which look like pictures that could have been taken by anybody. (Leonard Nimoy) [look]
• I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may. (Leonard Nimoy) [think/journey/attitude]
• I was working on the female figure before I started thinking of it as spiritual work. (Leonard Nimoy) [thinking]
• I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable. (Leonard Nimoy) [matter/think]
• I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing. (Leonard Nimoy) [spirituality]
• I've been working with photography for many years. (Leonard Nimoy)
• Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions. (Leonard Nimoy) [nature/night]
• My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture. (Leonard Nimoy)
• My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express. (Leonard Nimoy) [memory/more]
• My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious. (Leonard Nimoy) [wife/more]
• Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos. (Leonard Nimoy)
• Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks. (Leonard Nimoy) [words/death/people/trade]
• That's the most difficult issue for me... to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject. (Leonard Nimoy) [find/interest/time]
• That's true, because I'm a photographer now. (Leonard Nimoy)
• The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction. (Leonard Nimoy) [pleasure]
• This particular work that I'm so involved with is very dependent on the dynamics and the theatricality of composition and light. (Leonard Nimoy) [light]
• This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work. (Leonard Nimoy) [time/discussion/matter/time]
• What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else. (Leonard Nimoy) [right/mortality/start]
• Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast. (Leonard Nimoy)
• Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light. (Leonard Nimoy) [life/light]
• You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into. (Leonard Nimoy) [time/opinion]

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