Nobuyoshi Araki Quotes
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.

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There is no must in art because art is free.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.
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Girls run the world.
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A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.
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In the presence of the total reality upon which our conduct is founded, our knowledge is characterized by peculiar limitations and aberrations. We cannot say in principle that 'error is life and knowledge is death,' because a being involved in persistent errors would continually act wide of the purpose, and would thus inevitably perish.
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I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people.
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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.