I believe in invisible; I do not believe in visible.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like.

Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth. This arcane act of nature, though perceived by us as ordinary, is a manifestation of Maya's phantom play, the great immensity expressed in every way. My garden is the universe. I am the universe. I am my garden. All things are the same.

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.