Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.
Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.
I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.
The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains one's body?
It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an unbound book.
I get it. I really do. It's got to suck for people to see your sexual orientation instead of seeing you.
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.
The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.
Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea
Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.
