“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.” MadeRealityBlackWhiteColorPhotographyGhostInventionMade ItBlack And WhiteColorful Author:Nobuyoshi Araki
“Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?” ThinkingPhotographyBrutality Author:Nobuyoshi Araki
“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.” MayReasonMomentsPainJoyGoes OnTerriblePhotographyCrueltyFleetingObsceneMoments Of LifeBefore Death Author: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.” ArtBornPhotographyPhotographerClassroom Author: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.” FeelsPastPhotographyEach DayRepresentationCompelledDiariesProjection Author:Nobuyoshi Araki
“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.” IfsMomentsFormLinesCreatingPhotographyInstantStopping Author:Nobuyoshi Araki
“In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.” KindFormPhotographyActs Of Love Author:Nobuyoshi Araki
“Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.” ArtPhotographyArt IsJapanTabooFamous ArtistBreaking Rules Author:Nobuyoshi Araki
