Top 90 Leonard Nimoy Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Art functioning as propaganda is not art.”

— Leonard Nimoy

53. “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

54. “I’m only human, and I have no doubt Spock will outlive me by many years. I can only hope that, once in a while, when people look at Spock’s visage, they might sometimes think of me.”

— Leonard Nimoy

55. “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

56. “The camera can capture thought in a way that’s quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your work and communicate a lot with just a finger or an eyebrow, or a look, or a glance.”

— Leonard Nimoy

57. “Hello, I’m Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies and in the end, isn’t that the truth? The answer is no.”

— Leonard Nimoy

58. “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

59. “Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it’s at – of saying, “This is the way it is.” If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.”

— Leonard Nimoy

60. “I love comedy. I’m not known for comedy, but I love it. I’ve done a lot of it, in my lifetime. But most people are surprised to hear that I made a funny movie.”

— Leonard Nimoy

61. “I’ve enjoyed photography, ever since I was a teenager, and I’m still at it. I’ve had shows in various cities, around the country, and I have a number of pieces in permanent collections in museums that I’m very proud of.”

— Leonard Nimoy

62. “I use a computer. I don’t know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I’m pretty good on the computer.”

— Leonard Nimoy

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

— Leonard Nimoy

64. “These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I’m doing. I tell them I’m doing family.”

— Leonard Nimoy

65. “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

66. “I have a Master’s Degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don’t carry cameras with me wherever I go. I get an idea of a subject matter I want to deal with and I pull out my cameras.”

— Leonard Nimoy

67. “I certainly don’t live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment.”

— Leonard Nimoy

68. “I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I’ve been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the ’70s.”

— Leonard Nimoy

69. “Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.”

— Leonard Nimoy

70. “I know where Im going, and I know where Ive been.”

— Leonard Nimoy

71. “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

72. “Spock is definitely one of my best friends. When I put on those ears, it’s not like just another day. When I become Spock, that day becomes something special.”

— Leonard Nimoy

73. “It’s nice to get off the couch, throw the clothes on, add a little make-up and go back to work, every once in a while.”

— Leonard Nimoy

74. “Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.”

— Leonard Nimoy

75. “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

76. “The voice thing is a blessing that I was given. I’ve had opportunities to do voice work of all kinds. It was something that was given to me and I was able to make good use of it.”

— Leonard Nimoy

77. “That’s true, because I’m a photographer now.”

— Leonard Nimoy

78. “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

79. “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

80. “I’ve been working with photography for many years.”

— Leonard Nimoy

81. “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

82. “This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussions 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

83. “I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.”

— Leonard Nimoy

84. “I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.”

— Leonard Nimoy

85. “In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.”

— Leonard Nimoy

86. “It is important to understand what are you trying to capture with a camera. What you want to use this tool for. It helps to begin to search for and concentrate on thematic photography.”

— Leonard Nimoy

87. “I began working with a family camera. It was called a Kodak Autographic, which was one of those things where you flopped it open and pulled out the bellows. And I’ve been at it ever since – I’ve never stopped.”

— Leonard Nimoy

88. “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

89. “Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it’s totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.”

— Leonard Nimoy

90. “The means of many out way the means of the few or one.”

— Leonard Nimoy

91. “For me it’s all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.”

— Leonard Nimoy

92. “I’m not an equipment nut. I tend to use whatever’s at hand. I have several cameras, of course, but I’m not emotional about any of them.”

— Leonard Nimoy

93. “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