"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."

Mortality, Now, Right

9

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Mortality quotes

"Many want to live long, and ignore pangs of eternity."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Mortality, Eternity, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Life is but a breath. The end of life is the last breath of a man."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Mortality, Breath, Life, End, Man

"Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Mortality, Death, Fear, Sleep, Misery

"The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Mortality, Death, Darkness, Silence, Emotion

"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Mortality, Truth, Life, Death

"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Mortality, Death, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old."

George Orwell, British Author

Mortality, Life, Death, Violence, Fear

"When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Mortality, Heart, Death, Trust, Feelings

"Do not forget you will never live forever."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Mortality, Forget, Life, Forever, Time

"Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Mortality, Death, Values, Materialism, Life

Explore more quotes by Leonard Nimoy

"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."

Mortality

"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."

Work

"That's true, because I'm a photographer now."

Now

"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."

Exploration

"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."

Friendship

"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."

Life

"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."

Wife

"I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time."

Time

"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."

Time

"I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may."

Attitude