Accept 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

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

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

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

— Lucy Liu

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

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

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

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

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

“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 recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or…

— F. Sionil Jose

I have a huge amount of respect for all Japanese designers because I think there is consistency and respect to craft.

— Jonathan Anderson