When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt th... -Takashi Murakami

When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.'

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For children of my generation, anime was an escape from Japan's loser complex following World War II. Anime wasn't foreign. It was our own....
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The theme my generation explored was the relationship between capitalism and art....
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the ...
I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back....

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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also t...
Art is for everybody....
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully....
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible....
Art? That's a man's name....
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day....
Extreme complication is contrary to art....
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable....
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head a...
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the ...