Shomei Tomatsu famous quotes

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.
-- Shomei Tomatsu

#Body #Photograph #Fragments

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.
-- Shomei Tomatsu

#Photography #Loneliness #Matter

Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.
-- Shomei Tomatsu

#Photography #Moving #Mean

A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world.
-- Shomei Tomatsu

#Eye #Looks #World

Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never changes. He doesn't examine like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, support like a priest, make people laugh like a comedian, or intoxicate like a singer. He only watches. This is enough. No, this is all I can do. All a photographer can do is watch. Therefore, a photographer has to watch all the time. He must face the object and make his entire body an eye. A photographer is someone who wagers everything on seeing.
-- Shomei Tomatsu

#Eye #Doctors #People

If I had seven lives, I'd be a photographer in every one.
-- Shomei Tomatsu

#Photographer #Seven #Ifs

In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fly at the point of intersection.
-- Shomei Tomatsu

#Photography #Sea #Diving

Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.

The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.

We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.