Takashi Murakami Quotes

People like to put music and art up against the dehumanizing character of commerce and business corporations.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes or art that is detached from or independent of politics.

Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.

Money and art are far apart.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

Commerce has not delivered us out of history’s passions, the World Wide Web has not cast aside blood and kin and faith.

I think music is a great way of helping people to get to know a country's culture.

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.

The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.