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

- 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.

- 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 creati…

- Nobuyoshi Araki

Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past into…

- Nobuyoshi Araki

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

- Nobuyoshi Araki

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

- Nobuyoshi Araki

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

- 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…

- Nobuyoshi Araki

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

- Nobuyoshi Araki