Art Quote by Takashi Murakami

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

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

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

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 Japan, after having lost World War II, the hierarchy that used to exist in the society, from the rich to the poor, has…

— Takashi Murakami

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

— Lucy Liu

In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the…

— Brian Wildsmith

“Perhaps more than an American high school, Japan is like an English public school. You are supposed to learn, excel, and win athletic distinctions—not…

— Donald Richie

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or…

— Neil Gaiman

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

— Matt Tong

Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time.

— Rumaan Alam