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

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.

I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."

My art has gained some high value.

Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people tend to have fewer children. Poverty makes a chain reaction of having many children. So when society reaches some kind of level, then it will turn toward getting a smaller population.

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.