I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our ….

The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The mang….

New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition..

I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding..

The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think i….

My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces t….

I would like to live to 120, because conceptually, people can survive to 120. Every 20 years, it changes. So maybe, in the next 20 years people can g….

Like many other kids, I liked watching anime..

Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching ….

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 start….

Contemporary art and manga - what is the same about them? Nothing, right? The manga industry has a lot of talented people, but contemporary art works….

I'm always looking for ways to connect myself with American people and that American feeling. I'm trying to pick up on the feeling of places, like th….

We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't co….

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol..

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art..