Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.

I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.