“There has never been a work of art created which didn’t somehow reflect its own time.”

Utopia exists only in one’s childhood life.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

Engineers turn dreams into reality.

Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.

See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.”

I’d like more of the world go back to being wild.

I was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams.

Airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

You always have to appeal to your audience.

If you’re going to retire, retire early.

I’ve never studied psychology.

To young people, anime is something they incorporate into this private world.

AI animation is, “is an insult to life itself.

When I say ‘hero’, do not picture someone with strength to fight and conquer evil – because evil is not something that can ever be conquered or defeated. Evil is natural. It is innate in all humans.

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility.

The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.

Poetry is – it’s an art form, but, to me, it’s also a weapon, it’s also an instrument. It’s the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that’s a real, I think, type of duty for the poet.

I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear.

Even though Prince wasn’t rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.