Leonard Nimoy
NiFe II--
NiFe II-- Directive
Nimoy: "For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me."
Nimoy: "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."
Nimoy: "Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end."
Nimoy: "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."
Nimoy: "That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."
Nimoy: "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."
Nimoy: "You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise."
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."
Nimoy: "I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may."
Nimoy: "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."
Nimoy: "The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have."
Nimoy: "I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop,' but the ship doesn't stop immediately, does it? It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful."
Nimoy: "I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product."
Nimoy: "I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on."
Nimoy: "I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time."