Nobuyoshi Araki Quotes

• Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Photography, Art, Japan

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• 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

  Photography, Creating, Stopping

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• In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Photography, Kind, Form

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• 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

  Heart, Ties, Bags

  Interview with Dr. Anthony Al-Jamie, www.tokyojournal.com. 2002.

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

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Sex, Lenses, Sex Drive

  "TJ Archived Feature Story: Issue #245 Fall 2002". TJ Interview, www.tokyojournal.com. 2002.

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• 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

  Heart, Ties, Body

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• 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

  Photography, Past, Diaries

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• Only artists without talent try to shock people.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Artist, People, Trying

  "Crossing Boundaries: An Interview with Nobuyoshi Araki". Interview with Hyewon Yi, quod.lib.umich.edu. October 28, 2010.

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• 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

  Photography, Art, Photographer

  Interview with Dr. Anthony Al-Jamie, www.tokyojournal.com. 2002.

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

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Photography, Thinking, Brutality

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• 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

  Photography, Black And White, Reality

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• A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Half, Photographer, Mature

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• There is a camera is between a man and a woman.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Photography, Men, Cameras

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• 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

  Photography, Pain, Joy

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• 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

  Past, Events, Diaries

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• The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Cameras, Photograph

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