Yasumasa Morimura Quotes About Oblivion

• "Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Art, Fundamentals, World

  Source: u-in-u.com

• I first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme ["sea of oblivion"], and then sorted them out by grouping them into islands of ideas.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Islands, Sea, Ideas

  Source: u-in-u.com

• The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Art, Looks, World

  Source: u-in-u.com

• To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Art, Thinking, Oblivion

  Source: u-in-u.com

• By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Our World, Life And Death, Borders

  Source: u-in-u.com

• I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of "oblivion" as fundamental to their attitude for their expression.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Attitude, Artist, Expression

  Source: u-in-u.com

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