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'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

• 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 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

• And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Forever
  • Tree

• I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

  

  Diana Krall
  • Work
  • Music

• Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Film
  • Sun
  • Moon

• We try to entertain first, advertise second. When you find out that it's sponsored, we've already won you over. We try to make it obvious that the brand has made it better.

  

  Charles Lincoln Neal

• You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Success
  • Defeat
  • Gain

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

  

  Daido Moriyama