Nobuyoshi Araki Quotes

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 precedes pain, the moment of life just before death.

Nobuyoshi Araki

• Pain
• Joy
• Moments
• Reason
• Photography
• Terrible
• Cruelty

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  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Moments