I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of "oblivion" as fundamental to their attitude for their expression.

Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.

Art is basically entertainment.

By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".

To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".

The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".

I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists.

Of course, the process of curating is different from art making. Exhibition-making is a process that involves collaboration with various participating artists.

You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

It wasn't a revenge game or a get-back game, because that was a long time ago. This was just a big win for us.

I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.

Heard you told him that you'd love him 'til the end of time. Now that's the same thing that you told me.