Able Quote by Jean Pigozzi

Galleries in the West have probably been looking for exoticism. That's the reason my paintings initially sold well, I think. And then once they…

— Takashi Murakami

Unfortunately, the general interest in art among the Japanese is very low compared to that of Western countries. I would love to be able…

— Yusaku Maezawa

Maybe Japan itself is a little similar in that a lot of young people seem to have a little knowledge but not too much…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons.…

— Robert Barry

As a young artist in New York, I thought about postwar Japan - the consumer culture and the loose, deboned feeling prevalent in the…

— Takashi Murakami

I am stoked to go over to Japan and experience that culture.

— Adam Cole

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of…

— Takashi Murakami

Japanese culture is something I'm heavily inspired by. I was actually stationed for a few years in Japan with the Navy and I fell…

— Bella Poarch

Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was not so…

— Ai Weiwei

Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of…

— Takashi Murakami

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar