Art Quote by Takashi Murakami

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

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

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

“Despite the gulf, physical and cultural, between the United States and Japan, both societies are, in the end, made up of people, and people…

— Dave Barry

When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street…

— William Gibson

“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

[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.

— Quentin S. Crisp

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

“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

“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

“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

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

— Lucy Liu