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

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

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.

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

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.

I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.