Moriyama Daido Quotes

#1. He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.

Nick Hornby

#2. Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often, will tell you it's in a whole other place of experience from the usual ego or vanity that drives my game. So I'm not afraid to own it for what it was.

Cooper Cronk

#3. Speramus meliora; resurgret cineribus. We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes,

Jeffrey Eugenides

#4. I'm not going to kiss you," Simon said. "Ever."
"I've never heard anyone say that before," Jace mused. "It was a unique experience.

Cassandra Clare

#5. If God sets your speed limit high, don't be afraid of your life-car being crashed.

Munia Khan

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

Daido Moriyama

#7. The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures

Leo Tolstoy

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

Daido Moriyama

#9. Every person who changed the world did it by doing something everyone around them was unwilling to do.

Tiffany L. Jackson

#10. 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

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

Daido Moriyama

#12. The longer I live, the more I rebel. I'm not going to give in; I want to conquer the world!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#13. 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

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

Daido Moriyama

#15. My biggest fear isn't being a failure as an author but being a failure at being me.

Christina Noll

#16. Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

Ben Hogan

#17. Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

James Iha

#18. 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

#19. Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.

John Oliver

#20. I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely ... gone.

Meghan O'Rourke

#21. There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.

Donald Faison

#22. [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

#23. 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