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 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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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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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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The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.
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Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.
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A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
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I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.
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I loved that song "Don't Tell Me", but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the country. But people are not going to say it. People are not going to step out and say, 'I have a problem with Romney because he's Mormon.' What they're going to say is he's a flip-flopper... It's a fact; it's reality.
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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.
