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In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.

Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'

I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty.

Film is not just about the art form but also how it fares at the box office.

I love to watch people dance. It is the most fantastic skill and art form that anybody can have.

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.

What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.

Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it - in a world in which everything else is out of control.

I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.

I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.

I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.

You can have integrity with your art, but worrying about integrity doesn't pay the bills.