If you have time, a lot of things are enjoyable. Making this type of woodblock, or collecting the wood for the fire, or even cleaning things – it’s all enjoyable and satisfying if you give yourself time – Nakamura.

I think all people want freedom, but they’ve got this idea inserted into their head about money.

Often I’ll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there’s no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.

If you join some kind of association, your own true way of thinking gets shackled. You do things just to give yourself that feeling of ease.

If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?

If you have time, a lot of things are enjoyable. Making this type of woodblock, or collecting the wood for the fire, or even cleaning things - it's all enjoyable and satisfying if you give yourself time - Nakamura.

I finally understood that I couldn’t avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderfulthing, a beautiful thing.

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.