Nobuyoshi Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.

Jane Leavy

#6. Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.

Adeline Yen Mah

#7. The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

Nobuyoshi Araki

#8. Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

Nobuyoshi Araki

#9. If people go to IMDB, they will see that I'm very comfortable with independent cinema, and doing studio films too. For me this is not an either/or situation.

Spike Lee

#10. A son is an unfulfilled man's last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Nobuyoshi Araki

#12. Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.

Max Weber

#13. 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

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

Nobuyoshi Araki

#15. 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

#16. You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.

Joyce Banda

#17. 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

#18. Only artists without talent try to shock people.

Nobuyoshi Araki

#19. Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

John Ciardi

#20. The singers who are the most honest are the ones who become immortalized.

Tony Bennett

#21. I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.

Dorothy Parker

#22. A life too full of excitement is an exhausting life, in which continually stronger stimuli are needed to give the thrill that has come to be thought an essential part of pleasure.

Bertrand Russell

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

Nobuyoshi Araki

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

Nobuyoshi Araki

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

Nobuyoshi Araki