Shomei Tomatsu quotes
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“A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.”
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“In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.”
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“Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“If I had seven lives, I'd be a photographer in every one.”
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“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.”
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“The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.”
Source : "Q&A: Packers' Aaron Rodgers talks yoga, social media, Super Bowls". Interview with Mike Vandermause, www.usatoday.com. June 12, 2014.
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“We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.”
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“Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.”
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Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2006.
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Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press
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“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
Source : Attributed in "The Everything Digital Photography Book" by E.T. Schoch, (p. 105), 2002.
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Source : Joanne Harris (2012). “Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)”, p.456, Random House
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“Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.”
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