The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.