Yasumasa Morimura

"Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun."

"When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists."

"By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".

"The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".

“I don't think they heard me very well.”

YUKIO MISHIMA