When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.

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.

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.

Unborn eternity does not die

If you are not interested in your own country’s problems, than what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself!

In a way, we’re all addicts by nature.

... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.

The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

It turned out that Democrats did not come out in the numbers they came out for, for Barack Obama. Five million fewer voters than went for Barack Obama back in 2012. So, what went wrong?

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.