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"[About Yayoi Kusama:] Classifying her work as 'art brut' is simplistic and unfair. For me she represents the history of womankind. A sexually violated, politically annihilated, socially ignored and emotionally deprived feminine life. One of her works is entitled Self Obliteration, which seems to sum up a woman's utter despair, in life, in art, in anything real in the human world."

"Don’t hide your honesty in the shadows! Be who you really are and let your heart blossom!"

"Because I am a different shape and color, I can fill the space that’s missing in a big puzzle piece and complete the picture"

"In other words, people of all colors shine their own color"

"The most important message of our denomination is to let people know that we can all be saved regardless of our sexuality, gender or fashion preferences."

"Comics utilize images, angles, and feelings that are hard to create in the real world. I think it’s hard to reproduce the overall atmosphere of a comic into a movie, because a film must use real actors and actresses that are not perfectly matched with my original work."

"I think pen-drawn art has its own charm. The brightness of the picture produced by the contrast between black lines and the white of the paper, and the atmosphere created from the drawn lines… I think they cannot be expressed by live-action so easily."

"In terms of a short story, I'd like a more horrific/bad ending. In terms of longer stories, fans usually get emotionally attached to characters when reading long form. If I know that's the case, I want to end it on a good note, so people don't end up hating it. For me personally, I prefer short stories and ending it in a horrifying way because I'm also good at it."

"I think a lot about why people want to read horror or look at horror and what is the value of seeing something scary, why do we want to write something scary? I do think about that, and my thinking is that life is kind of uncertain. The future is uncertain; we don’t know what is going to happen. Maybe something bad is waiting for us, like, we don’t know, and there’s that uncertainty and that anxiety that comes from that. So if we see something scary, if we look at these scary things, then maybe we can prepare mentally for that. Maybe it’s some kind of readying our minds for possible future terrors."

"I think in horror the eyes are really important. How you draw them can totally change how scary a story is. I think the scariest part of the body is probably people’s eyes."

"A lot of modern movies take the approach of shocking the audience with things like jump scares. I grew up with the old-timey Hammer and Universal horror movies which focus more on creating a scary mood, so I prefer movies that gradually scare the audience with eerie atmosphere. Jump scares can certainly make people scared in the moment, but it's sort of a fleeting fear. I suppose it's all a matter of taste."

"As a huge fan of the series, I would like to make my own, but I kind of enjoys more taking what's there and giving it my own spin. As games go, I knows how hard it is to make games, so I would rather leave that work to other people and play the games they produce. But if they were willing to use my ideas, I would be happy to provide them with many, may ideas of my own."

"When I was working on the book there were times when production on the video game would pause, and then it would start up again. For instance, there was a long period of time between ' and '. So the publisher said, "because the game is not coming out, we don't really need to make a new manga.""

"Aerith and Tifa are both heroines in this game. We kind of made them both represent Eastern and Western styles. We designed Tifa to look more fit and athletic. From the moral committee among our staff, they said that if she's going to be doing a ton of action and movement, we wanted to give her clothes that would fit naturally, hence the change in a double layered tank top."

"When I am drawing the face expression of the character,I have the same expression on my face.I never realized myself,but people have told me so."

"There is no light for those who do not know darkness."

"He crossed the road when the signal was red,that’s his problem!"

"If you can have vivid characters,they will make the story themselves.By putting them in certain situations or having one meet another,they naturally make stories by reacting to each other."

"I think about what the readers would see first when they open the next page:what would jump into his or her eyes first?"

"I really drew it in the way I liked,did whatever I wanted."

"What I really wanted to do was just have this sonic boom, with a flash, and have the level change on you instantly."

"V has come to be my last Metal Gear. It has been an honor and a joy to have been given the opportunity to work on Metal Gear for nearly twenty amazing years. Tоday's computer graphics, technology, and hardware—compared to those of twenty years ago—have evolved so significantly. As a result, the art that can be created has dramatically changed. However, the process of conceptualizing and creating a character by understanding their personality, their habits, their backstory, and the role they play—this has fundamentally remained the same. Refining ideas and doing countless sketches over and over are tasks that at times feel formidable and complex. At the same time, they are very fun and gratifying."

"I think most directors and people who make anime would agree that their latest film is probably the one they feel the most confident in, that they have done their best and put everything into."

"But the thing about getting rejected is that you reflect and think and analyze about why you got turned down. You learn a lot more from stories about getting rejected than stories about becoming happy."

"It is a part of puberty that we just want to go somewhere far away. We only have a vague image, like behind that mountain or a place more beautiful..."

"I consider my anime as if they were children who, once grown up, are free to take their own path and personally I do not want to intrude in their lives. No father should snoop in the affairs of their children."

"But I do want to trigger emotions like his [Miyazaki] movies triggered our emotions."

"You don’t want to be imitating his [Miyazaki] style. You’ve got to create something different, something that he hasn’t done."

"I think that science fiction can, by creating extreme situations and settings, draw out the essence of human relationships."

"But... you can’t be Miyazaki, you can only be the second Miyazaki, and that isn’t something to aim for."

"If I had been born 10 years earlier, I don’t think I would be an animator."

"Your Names success told me movies still have the power to connect with society. As a medium, it still has a power that resonates."

"I think animation can tell more than live action."

"It’s the situations that these distant relationships create that interest me more than the distance itself."

"Whenever Chan Master Seisetsu Shucho gave Dharma talks at Engaku Temple many, many people would come. Whenever there was a talk the crowd would be so tightly packed into the hall that you could barely move. Finally, someone suggested that a new wing be added to the temple to allow for a more spacious lecture hall."

"My hour draws near and I am still alive. Drawn by the chains of death I take my leave. The King of Hades has decreed Tomorrow I shall be his slave."

"In a certain sense the phrase "I am still alive" can never be sent as it cannot be received by the addressee instantaneously...It is only valid at the very instant that it is being written, and in the very next second it no longer is a certainty. If the addressee receives the telegram a few hours or days later and reads it, he merely knows that the sender was alive at the very instant the telegram was sent. But when he is reading the telegram, he is totally uncertain if the content of the text is still relevant or if it is still valid The difference, the small displacement between sending and receiving, is that particular unseizable glimpse of the presence of the artist. Likewise, it is a sentence of self-reassurance..."I am still alive." The activity of telling oneself and the world "I am still alive.""

"His most famous work, the Today Series (1966–2014), is an accumulation of thousands of "Date Paintings". In these works the date on which the painting was made is meticulously painted in white sans serif text, at the centre of a canvas coated with flat colour, with the month spelled out in the language of the place where it was made (unless the Roman alphabet was not used for the first language, in which case Kawara resorted to Esperanto). The paintings were produced in more than 112 cities worldwide. If a Date Painting was not finished by the end of the day, by midnight, he would destroy it."

"I learned everything from her. … It is a teacher-pupil relationship. That's what people don't understand. She's the teacher and I'm the pupil. I'm the famous one, the one who's supposed to know everything, but she's my teacher. She's taught me everything I fucking know."

"Woman, please let me explainI never meant to cause you sorrow or painSo let me tell you again and again and again...I love youNow and forever."

"My biography now reads, "Born, lived and met Yoko.""

"That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor. You know, and we are humorous, we are, what are they, Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot."

"The opposite of love is fear, not hate."

"Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Power works in mysterious ways. You don’t have to do much. Visualise the domino effect And just start thinking PEACE. The message will circulate faster than you think. It’s Time For Action. The Action is PEACE. Spread the word. Spread PEACE. I love you!"

"If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you."

"Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison."

"Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it."

"I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women."

"In a day, sometimes I feel so much love for the world, I think my heart is bursting. Sometimes, I feel so scared, I want to shrink myself even further. I think that’s what happened to us gods and goddesses. Like the dinosaurs, we realized that it’s too dangerous to be so large. So we kept shrinking ourselves to what we are now. We might get even smaller. I see the sign in the engineers making smaller gadgets, smaller and smaller. Pretty soon, our fingers will be too large to operate them. So what are we doing? I trust in the human wisdom. We are incredibly intelligent beings. So we might know something without thinking that we know…. Well, even my best friend didn’t know until now that I was thinking of crazy things like this."

"John and I felt that we were like people in an H. G. Wells story. Two people who are walking so fast that nobody else can see them."