Self-portrait2010
Listen to me! For I am thus and thus. Do not, above all, confound me with what I am not!

— Friedrich Nietzsche


The real must be fictionalized in order to be thought.

—    Jacques Rancière


Did I ever tell ya that this here jacket represents a symbol of my individuality, and my belief in personal freedom?

—    Wild At Heart, David Lynch


There is no such thing as either man or nature now, only a process that produces the one within the other and couples the machines together. Producing-machines, desiring-machines everywhere, schizophrenic machines, all of species life: the self and the non-self, outside and inside, no longer have any meaning whatsoever.

—    Deleuze and Guattri


`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

 —    Lewis Carroll


Laughter is more divine and in meaning more elusive than tears.

—    Georges Bataille



When I have sex with someone I forget who I am.

For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist.

— Robert Mapplethorp





Elle est retrouvée.

Quoi? L'eternité.

C'est la mer allée

Avec le soliel.

—  Arthur Rimbaud



© Yoshitada Okubo 2024