Dull Quote by Isabella Bird

“Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance studios. Even…

— David Mitchell

Of course, I, like the sponsoring government, would like to have as many people as possible visit Yokohama Triennale. This is because I believe…

— Yasumasa Morimura

Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence…

— Rem Koolhaas

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

— Tadao Ando

I had thought that Tokyo would be like New York City, but it wasn't. I'd imagined that they'd be similar in their bustle and…

— Min Jin Lee

“It is not, of course, only the Japanese who find flat sterile surfaces attractive and kirei. Foreign observers, too, are seduced by the crisp…

— Alex Kerr

I think it is one of the common themes for many Japanese people to choose where to live: Tokyo or their hometown.

— Makoto Shinkai

“I had a dream about you last night. In this dream we were walking down the beautiful Japanese streets of Florida. Fukuoka is nice…

— Rodney Jenkins

I have been to Tokyo and several other cities, but I have never been to Yamaguchi Prefecture. I wonder what it is like, what…

— Vladimir Putin

Tokyo is like a huge futuristic pinball machine. It's like a bubble with two lost creatures inside a pinball machine that doesn't care about…

— Gaspar Noe

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.

— Rem Koolhaas

Tokyo style is so specific. And I'm a very big fan of their history. It's pretty simple. A lot of the time, people expect…

— Thundercat