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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 come out, you're low class.

The theme my generation explored was the relationship between capitalism and art.

I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back.

My company, Kaikai Kiki, is unique because it's an art business. I had to find out how to do this by myself.

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.