Knowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7.

- Kafu Nagai

I believe that man was created to enjoy himself, indeed, that he can claim it as his legitimate right. In fact, as long as he lives, man cannot help …

- Kafu Nagai

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

- Kafu Nagai

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

- Kafu Nagai