Designing characters for 'Dragon Quest' is fun but difficult work.

I'm not good at doing the same thing over and over again.

It was very easy to convince me to take on the job of character designer for 'Dragon Quest.'

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Art is competitive.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.