Dreams Quote by Matthi Forrer

“Japan is probably the best... example of the abandonment of an ancient and nature-oriented ethos for the spirit of progress, Western style.”

— John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment

I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai…

— Renee O'Connor

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

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

“Reading about Japan in the West is often like looking at a funhouse mirror through a kaleidoscope.”

— Nick Mamatas

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

— Lucy Liu

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

“Lurking at the foundations of otaku culture is the complex yearning to produce a pseudo Japan once again from American-made material, after the destruction…

— Hiroki Azuma

“We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations of the…

— Theodore C. Bestor

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

“producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an…

— Oscar Wilde

“trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a ‘person-of-the-arts,’ limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind’s music, the…

— A. A. Attanasio