A Quote by Yasumasa Morimura

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

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Artists Attitude Consider Expression Focus Fundamental Oblivion Priority Put Themselves World

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Yasumasa Morimura
Japanese - Artist
Born: June 11, 1951

"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

There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.

Roger Ebert

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

Thomas Carlyle

... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick.

Jimmy Piersall

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

Philip Wylie

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.

Mervyn Peake

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

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.

Anne Reeve Aldrich

Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

H. P. Lovecraft

All things that are, are ours. But we must care. For if we do not care, we do not exist. If we do not exist, then there is nothing but blind oblivion. And even oblivion must end someday. Lord, will you grant me just a little time? For the proper balance of things. To return what was given. For the sake of prisoners and the flight of birds. Death took a step backwards. It was impossible to read expression in azrael's features. Death glanced sideways at the servants. Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?

Terry Pratchett

Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death- Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.

Philip Larkin

Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.

Alan Moore

There never was a democracy yet where the people didn't vote themselves into oblivion.

Mitt Romney

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

Richard de Bury

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

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.