"[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."

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Source : Sandra S. Phillips, Daidō Moriyama, Alexandra Munroe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1999). “Daido Moriyama: stray dog”, San Francisco Museum

Daido Moriyama

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.”
“For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting in themselves.”
“When I act, I act. When I sing, I sing. I don't put one over the other. Entertaining is what I do best.”
“And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.”
“Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.”
“To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people”

Source : "The poetry of the Celtic races: and other studies".
“It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.”
“There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.”

Source : William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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