I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit.

Life is one passage and then you keep moving into another state.

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

I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality behind.

The Buddhist concept is that it takes 48 days to get near this state [of death]. So it's a slow process, moving into, not a permanent death, but the world of the dead.

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.