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• Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.
• People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an…
• Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.
• When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph,…
• If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.
• It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.
• I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit.
• One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing…
• Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative…
• To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.
• Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is…
• Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel…

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