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

Leonard Nimoy Quotes

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

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

— Leonard Nimoy

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

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

— Leonard Nimoy

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

— Leonard Nimoy

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

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

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

— 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.

— Leonard Nimoy

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

If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both.

— Leonard Nimoy

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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

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

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

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

I consider myself more spiritual than religious.

— Leonard Nimoy

I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize.

— Leonard Nimoy

What fiction could match – in drama or suspense – man’s first walk on the Moon?

— 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

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. Star Trek and Spock, if they are works of art, can be discussed. But finally the response comes in individual terms. Each viewer sees what is there for him, depending on his frame of reference.

— Leonard Nimoy

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