Gallery Quote by 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

I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to…

— Jean Pigozzi

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

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 going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for…

— Larry Ellison

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

“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

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

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 travel a lot. Japanese culture is very ancient and very strong. That's why most people who commission work from Japanese architects expect them…

— Shigeru Ban

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

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