Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

In your own country, it's easy to make assumptions about people based on accents, about areas based on architecture.

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.'

In every country I've gone to, if you smile at people, they are going to be happy. This is my attitude.

A lot of people forget that Americans are immigrants. People are forgetting that, to where people have this attitude, 'We're Americans, go back to your country. Go back. This is a free country.' I always heard that growing up. I always heard that.

Even if, at the helm of the country there are people who would like to replace me and suppress me and oppress me at the level of blood-sucking vampires, then I do not want to remove them with anti-democratic means. This is my attitude toward any and even the idea of the consideration of a military coup.

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.