I'm not politically active, but I'm saying [that] you can open up people's understanding of themselves and others with play.

Are you outside or inside the work­? You don't really know.

My family life mirrors why I am the person I am.

If you're creating a smile in yourself and also giving it to someone else, then you've started a dialogue. You also start to play.

We don't understand each other. That's why there are so many bad things happening; a lot of it has to do with not understanding.

When you have children, you start to play with them and you mirror yourself. You see your parents in yourself. It's all about mirroring.

When you have children it wakes up the child in you.

I don't need to be everywhere because my art pieces can talk for themselves.

I think that this media online stuff makes us all sick. We think we have to be online all the time.

I think that when something ends there's something new starting.

Of course it's nice to be connected, but the nicest thing, I think, is someone you can look in the eye and talk to.

Shizuo Heiwajima, the strongest man in Ikebukuro: "I just want the ability to control myself. That's the kind of strength I want.

Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.

I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it.

Whatever people say I am, I'm not.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.

Yes!” said Fang, punching the air. “Freaks rule.

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.