Best quotes by Takashi Murakami on Work

Checkout quotes by Takashi Murakami on Work

• ‟ If I have a certain opinion, I try to incorporate that into my work.

  - Takashi Murakami
  

• ‟ My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.

  - Takashi Murakami
  

• ‟ In Japan, after having lost World War II, the hierarchy that used to exist in the society, from the rich to the poor, has been flattened, especially by the winners, by Americans. As a Japanese artist debuting in America, I really had to bring that kind of theme into the work.

  - Takashi Murakami
  

• ‟ I don't always enjoy curating, but I do believe it's part of my job. It's a good exercise for my brain, like warming up. Just focusing on my work would be so depressing! For me, curating is necessary - it's like physical training.

  - Takashi Murakami
  

• ‟ As a young artist in New York, I thought about postwar Japan - the consumer culture and the loose, deboned feeling prevalent in the character and animation culture. Mixing all those up in order to portray Japanese culture and society was my work.

  - Takashi Murakami