Daido Moriyama Quotes

“You take one, then one more, then one more, and so on. The more you take, the more you want to take. It's like you're continually stimulating yourself, increasing your desire, just by looking at that little screen. You want to try it this way and then that.”
― Takeshi Nakamoto, Daido Moriyama: How I Take Photographs

“When you're taking shots in neutral, indifferent places like this, you should match the mood, and take equally neutral and indifferent pictures. [...] First of all, you've got very little to choose from in the way of subjects. You've got think, what are you going to take? In other districts of the city, I almost automatically set out to look of things that have "the smell of humanity" about them.”
― Takeshi Nakamoto, Daido Moriyama: How I Take Photographs

“For me, the ultimate aim is always to get my work on print. To get my photos into a photo book, or a collection - to be able to look at it once it's completed, and feel satisfied I've done a good job. Getting a good book out, it's worth going through a bit of hassle or criticism, isn't it, for that? You can't care too much about what other people say. You've got to have guts.”
― Takeshi Nakamoto, Daido Moriyama: How I Take Photographs

“If a camera is small, light, and takes good shots, well, what more can you ask for? And a digital camera is all of those things.”
― Takeshi Nakamoto, Daido Moriyama: How I Take Photographs

“Think about it. If you've got an SLR or a large-format camera in your hand, you inevitably want to take considered shots. You think about the composition, and so on. With a compact camera, you just point and shoot.”
― Takeshi Nakamoto, Daido Moriyama: How I Take Photographs

“Just their normal, everyday route. Apart from being great training for taking snapshots, it's a way for them to understand how their own peers of observation affect what they see, even with the most ordinary of things.”
― Takeshi Nakamoto, Daido Moriyama: How I Take Photographs

“Take shots, lots of shots, of any regular journeys they make in their everyday lives.”
― Takeshi Nakamoto, Daido Moriyama: How I Take Photographs