Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

I don't know whether the future or 2018 exists or not, but if it exists, I'm offering a show to a museum in Australia titled "Time Reversed." Time is going backwards.

We need to have nature back in our atmosphere. There might be a turning point of going backward - within a few thousand years we are going back to the Stone Age! There are many scenarios [with] the robot technologies: Humans no longer need to walk; machines can produce products and food and everything. You might not be able to recognize what's false and what is 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.

Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.