"Humans simultaneously combine tenderness and violence. If you peel back the face of a beautiful woman, you see it is clogged with viscera. Choosing to create work that is only beautiful feels artificial. Thus I paint both. You cannot sever the two. The expression that results is a natural chaos. In my work I project chaos, anarchy, anxiety, the grotesque, the absurd, and the irrational. By doing so, I attain harmony. This is my art" - Daisuke Ichiba
