Araki Photography Quotes

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

Nobuyoshi Araki

#2. Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.

Neil Strauss

#3. There is a camera is between a man and a woman.

Nobuyoshi Araki

#4. Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost," George said. "Now that's what I call a busy evening."
Lockwood nodded. "To think some people just watch television.

Jonathan Stroud

#5. Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Aristotle.

#6. 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

#7. I've never felt like this before, with anyone. It's against the rules of surviving.

Jessica Sorensen

#8. 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

#9. People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word.

Ron Finley

#10. 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

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

Nobuyoshi Araki

#12. When primeval man first used flint stones for any purpose, he would have accidentally splintered them, and would then have used the sharp fragments. From this step it would be a small one to break the flints on purpose and not a very wide step to fashion them rudely.

Charles Darwin

#13. Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

Ray Dalio

#14. 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

#15. He had stylized himself
life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

Graham Greene

#16. 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