[Takashi] Murakami, do you think he is spiritual? He is more like de-spiritualized. De-spiritualized might be the most contemporary aspect of the human mind.

However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.

I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit.

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

[Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says but watch what he does.

I'm thankful to have time to write.

The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.

Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.

As the more holy we are upon earth the more happy we must be.

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.

Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.