Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.

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.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

I have respected women from the beginning of my life.

The winter has not killed usagain!

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

The business of life is to go forward.

The unseen energy that was once in Shakespeare or Picasso or Galileo or any human form, is also available to all of us. That is because the spirit energy does not die, it simply changes form.

Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.