Araki Nobuyoshi Quotes & Sayings

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography? — Nobuyoshi Araki

Only artists without talent try to shock people. — Nobuyoshi Araki

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death. — Nobuyoshi Araki

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death, — Nobuyoshi Araki

There is a camera is between a man and a woman. — Nobuyoshi Araki

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't. — Nobuyoshi Araki

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it. — Nobuyoshi Araki

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe. — Nobuyoshi Araki

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death. — Nobuyoshi Araki

We were so used to traveling we had to walk all over Long Island, but there was no more land, just the Atlantic Ocean, and we could only go so far. — Jack Kerouac

I would say my sex drive is weaker than most. However, my lens has a permanent erection. — Nobuyoshi Araki

I only tie up woman's body because I know I cannot tie up her heart. Only her physical parts can be tied up. Tying up a woman becomes an embrace. — Nobuyoshi Araki

When a smoker says he wants to quit but can't, what he's really saying is, "I want to quit but I want even more not to suffer the agony of withdrawal." To argue otherwise is to jettison any lingering notion of personal responsibility. — Jonathan Franzen

Photography is about a single point of a moment. It's like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life. — Nobuyoshi Araki

We are here, Fitz, you and I, to change the future of the world. To reach out and hold in place the tiny pebble that could trigger the boulder's tumbling. — Robin Hobb

We forgot everything. We forgot how shit life was. And we danced. — D.H. Sidebottom

My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take. — Nobuyoshi Araki

Look on the bright side: if you cause an inferno, you can always put it out with a tidal wave. — Sarah Alderson

Shit don't mean shit." Jimmy Gold — Stephen King

Women? Well, they are gods. They will always fascinate me. As for rope, I always have it with me. Even when I forget my film, the rope is always in my bag. Since I can't tie their hearts up, I tie their bodies up instead. — Nobuyoshi Araki

Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past into the present and also continue into the future. A day's occurrence evokes both the past and the future. That's why I want to clearly date my pictures. It's actually frustrating, that's why I now photograph the future — Nobuyoshi Araki

Ah, dear, sweet Eden. To quote the great Rhett Butler, you need to be fucked and by someone who knows how."
"What version of Gone with the Wind did you grow up watching?"
"There are a lot of liberties taken with Spanish subtitles. — Karina Halle

Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made it black-and-white. Color is life; black-and-white is death. There was a ghost hidden in the invention of photography. — Nobuyoshi Araki