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

- Shomei Tomatsu

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

- Shomei Tomatsu

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 …

- Shomei Tomatsu

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

- Shomei Tomatsu

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 fl…

- Shomei Tomatsu

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

Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never change…

- Shomei Tomatsu