Animation Quote by Lucy Liu

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

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 Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number…

— David Rockefeller

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

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people… The Japanese people are…

— Oscar Wilde

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is…

— Katherine Paterson

Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to…

— Henri Matisse

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

— Minoru Yamasaki

In the West, it's just a given that art exists in this high-class place. But in Japan, there's no high class. The minute you…

— Takashi Murakami

“In Japan itself it seemed as if theory had been absorbed the same way Japanese media culture absorbed everything else—by turning it into a…

— McKenzie Wark

“Hokusai managed to integrate this into a Japanese vision of landscapes and nature prints which strike the Western viewer as utterly Japanese, and the…

— Matthi Forrer

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