Nobuyoshi Araki Quotes

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

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

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.

Only artists without talent try to shock people.

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.

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

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

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

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