Mariko Mori famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I must create the world in order to breathe in the world; I don't exist unless I create.
-- Mariko Mori

#Order #World #Breathe
I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.
-- Mariko Mori

#Past #Order #Iconography
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.
-- Mariko Mori

#Technology #Reality #Ideas
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
-- Mariko Mori

#Believe #People #Fins
... 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

#New York #Father #School

Order, thou eye of action.
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.
To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
Take a long pause ...breathe and know that things are happening for you not to you.

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