I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."

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.

[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.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.

He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.

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