Top Shomei Tomatsu Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Shomei Tomatsu Biography

Shōmei Tōmatsu (東松照明, Tōmatsu Shōmei, January 16, 1930 – December 14, 2012) was a Japanese photographer.

Read about Shomei Tomatsu in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Shomei Tomatsu Quotes

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

Loneliness, Matter, Photography, Turning

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.

Beginning, Eye, Looks, Turn, World

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

Ifs, Lives, Photographer, Seven

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.

Analyze, Doctor, Doctors, Enough, Eye, Laughing

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

Gravity, Mean, Moving, Oneself, Photography, Type

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.

Diving, Love, Photography, Same, Sea, Sparks

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

Body, Distillation, Fragment, Fragments, Mere, Photograph

Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson

Russell Johnston

Russell Johnston

Star Parker

Joba Chamberlain

Joba Chamberlain

Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney

Charles Hermite

Charles Hermite

Chester Crocker

Chester Crocker

Alain Prost

Alain Prost

Mike Conley, Jr.

Mike Conley, Jr.

Charlotte Rae

Charlotte Rae

Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry

Haidakhan Babaji

Haidakhan Babaji