Top 27 Nobuyoshi Araki Quotes
#1. I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.
George Russell
#2. Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
Samuel Johnson
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. My God, every time, it never fails. You happen to me all over again. I never stopped loving you, Lay. You were always with me. Everywhere.
T. Torrest
#6. Resolve is what makes a man manifest. Not puny resolve; not crude determinations; not errant
Napoleon Hill
#7. My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. 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
#9. When you try to build Heaven on earth you end up building ghetto's of Hell
Dean Cavanagh
#10. The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.
Nobuyoshi Araki
#12. People who try to commit suicide
don't attempt to save them! ... China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.
Mao Zedong
#13. Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?
Nobuyoshi Araki
#14. 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
#15. Criticism is valuable ... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.
Harold Prince
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.
Tommy Lee
#19. 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
#21. Love is like lightning. You never see it coming. If it strikes you, you know it instantly and it will forever leave its mark.
Karen Ranney
#23. I would say my sex drive is weaker than most. However, my lens has a permanent erection.
Nobuyoshi Araki
#24. Cleverness never seems quite so impressive when regarded outside the moment,
Brandon Sanderson
#25. Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
#26. In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death,
Nobuyoshi Araki
#27. A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.
Nobuyoshi Araki
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