- Yoshiaki Tono: There is no longer Japanese art, only Japanese artists. In the 1950's people found Japanese qualities in abstract painters, but with Pop art young people felt liberated from the past and in the reality of the cultural world. I'm interested in the new generation of student artists. They are questioning not only art education but also the concept of art itself. Their questions refused to be answered by isn't it true that art in itself has always been the deep question not to be answered?
- Katsuhiko Narita: I am interested in the material of Sumi itself. To see Sumi makes us feel something like the ruins after the prosperity of the Roman Empire. I am interested in the material that makes me feel emptiness.
- Jiro Takamatsu: I intended to change space. In my case I tried to use perspective technique for a solid, and in a strict sense perspective techniques may not be the right word. Perhaps one could say that I intended to change one space and to create the experience of another space.