“Honestly, I have been more influenced by children’s books, especially ones that I read when I was little… Picture books tell many stories with one picture, so this kind of system, narratives emerging from a single picture, has had a much stronger influence on my work, particularly my early work, I think.”
Yoshitomo Nara Quoted in Exh., Cat., Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool, Asia Society Museum, New York, 2010-2011, p. 174-175