Quotes by Leonard Nimoy

About Leonard Nimoy:

Leonard Simon Nimoy was an American actor, film director, photographer, author, singer, and songwriter. He was known for his role as Mr. Spock of the Star Trek franchise, a character he portrayed in television and film from a pilot episode shot in late 1964 to his final film performance released in 2013.
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For a period of time, I carried cameras with me wherever I went, and then I realized that my interest in photography was turning toward the conceptual. So I wasn't carrying around cameras shooting stuff, I was developing concepts about what I wanted ...

Leonard Nimoy

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

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

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 t...

Leonard Nimoy

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

Leonard Nimoy

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

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

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Leonard Nimoy

Author Bio

  • NameLeonard Nimoy
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer
  • AliasesLeonard Simon Nimoy
  • BornMarch 26, 1931
  • DiedFebruary 27, 2015
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Film Director; Poet; Writer; Musician; Voice Actor; Photographer