Daido Moriyama Quotes

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

Daido Moriyama

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• What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Looking

• It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Color
  • Out
  • Dictates

• I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Reality
  • Past
  • Alone

• I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Why
  • Know
  • Kind

• I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • American

• Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Money
  • History
  • Guy

• Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Expression

• One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Listening
  • Red

• Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Life
  • Me
  • Company

• I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Age
  • Fans
  • Lots

• I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Book
  • True

• Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Broken

• I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Older

• For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Truth
  • Rich
  • Truth Is

• I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Great
  • Family
  • Job

• Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Worry
  • Painting
  • Gravity

• I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Sitcom

• I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • My Life

• A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest, as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

  

  John Adams
  • Heart
  • Desire

• I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • American
  • American Idol
  • Undignified

• And you speak of a fever, that burns you inside,as you explain to your mother, how you've wanted to die.So she kisses your fingers, and says 'My darling, but why?When there is so much more. There is so much more.'

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Why
  • She
  • Mother

• I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products of the time include some pretty dour kitchen-sink dramas of the A Kind of Loving variety. (This kind of film seems disillusioned with the sixties before they've even really begun.)

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Time
  • War
  • Pretty

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

  

  Daido Moriyama