Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Mariko Mori

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese photographer Mariko Mori.

Last updated on April 17, 2025.

Mariko Mori is a Japanese multidisciplinary artist. She is known for her photographs and videos of her hybridized future self, often presented in various guises and featuring traditional Japanese motifs. Her work often explores themes of technology, spirituality and transcendence.

Japanese - Photographer | Born: 1967

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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

Mariko Mori

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

... 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

I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.

Mariko Mori

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

Mariko Mori