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

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little ... We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work ... in order to free their hold. — Mary Caroline Richards

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

There's love and everybody talks about it, but not all of us come close to it - or, if we do, it's not in the expected way. — Rupert Thomson

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

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

Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special.
There, she was only a parlor maid, who would likely have lost her position once her looks had faded. Now she is a valued member of our household, a gifted girl with much to contribute. — Cassandra Clare

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

Being a part of 'Sex and the City' was like being at the center of the universe - it was extraordinary. — James Remar

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

Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments, — Elizabeth Kostova

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

Inconvient things are always remembered — Lloyd Alexander

It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Germinal,' 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' and 'A Moveable Feast.' — Suzanne Collins

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

My mom was the best mom in the world. Except for when she wasn't. I hated her the same way I loved her: deeply. — Brittainy C. Cherry

Then the queenmother said, "I am done with weeping." She whistled for the grey wolves that guarded her keep, and they loped at her heels as she rode around the Inward Sea and south to Ramas, and the way was long and hard. She knelt before her brother, King Thyrse, and begged him to lend this strength to save her son and kingdom from the lamia's stranglehold. But he bade her go hom to her northern keep, saying, "It more befits a woman to weep than to war." She rent her gown and showed under it a corset of steel, saying, "Brother, by our sire and our dame, remember the same blood runs in both our veins. — Sarah Micklem

I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them around and exchanging things, but for a man who has the history that Andy Kim had, and has lived the life that he's had, you see such a youthful aspect of how he just wanted to create something again. — Kevin Drew

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye. — William Shakespeare

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

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