"Only artists without talent try to shock people."

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Source : "Crossing Boundaries: An Interview with Nobuyoshi Araki". Interview with Hyewon Yi, quod.lib.umich.edu. October 28, 2010.

Nobuyoshi Araki

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“Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.”
“Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.”
“The clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country. They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.”
“Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.”
“Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.”
“It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.”
“the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.”
“If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her in black - she never wears black - and add a little leather, maybe. A little rock n' roll.”

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