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

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.

[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.

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

The thing about coming back from the dead was that your life went on.

My family was my guide to my reality.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

I made my daughter read the whole. That's how you make atheists.

The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy.

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

I know that many ailments can be healed with food by nourishing your body instead of taking drugs.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.