Moriyama Quotes

#1. If you're having fun, enjoy it. If you're angry, get angry. And when you want to cry, go ahead and cry your heart out. You'll feel a lot better after a good cry. And then you'll be able to laugh again.

Daisuke Moriyama

#2. Patting someone's hand, or shoulder, a hug, all of it is necessary to be happy and healthy for most people. It doesn't have to have anything to do with sex; in fact, most of the touch that keeps us all going is as innocent as a newborn lamb frolicking on the spring grass,

Laurell K. Hamilton

#3. The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

Rob Montgomery

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

Daido Moriyama

#5. I refuse to be a victim. I am a survivor.

Phoenix I James

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

Daido Moriyama

#7. Music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

William Shakespeare

#8. 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

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

Daido Moriyama

#10. Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.

Horace

#11. Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

Oliver Goldsmith

#12. 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

#13. Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

Nouriel Roubini

#14. Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

Mark Cuban

#15. Sometimes the problem is recognizing what's right in front of you, because what might look like a huge stone, blocking your way, is realy a ladder leading to all new heights, you just have to find the right hand holds.

S.L. Rogers

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

Daido Moriyama

#17. A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

Neal Barnard

#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. [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

#20. 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

#21. What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

Marie Lu