12 Quotes by Nobuyoshi Araki

Art is all about doing what you shouldn’t.

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.

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

Only artists without talent try to shock people.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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