The Buddhist concept is that it takes 48 days to get near this state [of death]. So it's a slow process, moving into, not a permanent death, but the world of the dead.

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.

Be Gods and make Gods.

Human kind has always been in the shadows of each other since its persistence of social interventional among the large groups of human societies.

If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country!

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

Darren Fletcher is the type of player who would walk over hot coals to play for his country, and he has done

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.

There are two types of people in this world - those who would appear on reality television and the rest of us.

The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

We did receive some questions about the film's [Aquarius] sexuality in Cannes, but they came from the press rather than audiences.