Mariko Mori quotes
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“I must create the world in order to breathe in the world; I don't exist unless I create.”
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“I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.”
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“I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas from the East... But I'm not interested in using ancient things; rather I want to connect them with contemporary life through the technology we have now.”
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“We've fallen into a fin-de-siecle period of crisis in which people believe only the things they see right in front of them”
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“... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity. The photographs I exhibited in New York juxtaposed reality and fantasy. There was everyday life and fantasy was dismantling that reality.”
-- Mariko Mori
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”
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“To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.”
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“Take a long pause ...breathe and know that things are happening for you not to you.”
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