Daido Moriyama Quotes

#1. If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.

Daido Moriyama

#2. Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

Daido Moriyama

#3. [My] photos are often out of focus, rough, streaky, warped, etc. But if you think about it, a normal human being will in one day perceive an infinite number of images, and some of them are focused upon, others are barely seen out of the corner of one's eye.

Daido Moriyama

#4. Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images ... that sink into countless strata in my mind.

Daido Moriyama

#5. There were two kinds of stupid. Stupid people that got drunk and humped trees, and stupid people that just humped trees.

Penelope Douglas

#6. The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.

Paulo Coelho

#7. I wanted to go to the end of photography.

Daido Moriyama

#8. There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound ... We're musical primitives.

Andy Warhol

#9. I want to take a lot of Nasty photos.

Daido Moriyama

#10. We "love" people the way we "love" ourselves, and if we are not good enough, then no one is.

Jen Hatmaker

#11. The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself.

Daido Moriyama

#12. For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality

Daido Moriyama

#13. Congressmen are like diapers - You need to change them often, and for the same reason

Pete McCloskey

#14. You'll not sit at the dinning table and expect the food to jump into your mouth. If you're hungry, pick a spoon and start eating. Stop sitting in the dinning world to look at the eaters, it is your turn to start eating if you know you're hungry.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#15. It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#16. Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.

Daido Moriyama