To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

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.

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.

Time is the raw material from which money is made.

Self-loathing is man’s effort to sweep the moon of footprints.

I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

It's very difficult to follow our dreams, but it's even more difficult to forget them.

3. When he smiles at you, sometimes you feel like crying.

The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.