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"(...) More than any other artist Japanese-Brazilian, it fits into a context internationalizing frankly, and produces a work which converge, in my opinion, East and West. Its language brings together various trends - particularly Europe - the last twenty years. At the base is a constructive awareness, disciplined organization that seeks objective and clear the ways - and that it represents, by itself, one of the facets also exist in eastern soul. (I was always impressed the class 'design' which is the very Japanese flag, and not worth remembering the bare simplicity of the gardens 'zen' in its own way an expression of pure minimalist art.) On this background constructivist Toyota superimposes his taste for optical games, a virtual Kinetic - occasionally today - the surrender to highly sophisticated industrial materials and asepsis, and [...] admit the interference of natural forces, or manipulation by the viewer. "
Olívio Tavares de Araújo
TOYOTA, Yutaka. Yutaka Toyota. São Paulo: Renato Magalhães Gouvêa Escritório de Arte, 1978. Não paginado.​

"In the work of Toyota (...), besides the interaction between the optical and kinetic sculptural object and the environment, including the observer, there is also a recall on the object itself, pro-duced by the reflection of a part for another. This feedback of the object in turn interacts with the displacement of the observer, giving Toyota the last works of an opportunity for coloristic effects of great beauty, and sometimes a hint deep magic. "
SCHENBERG, Mário. Pensando a arte. São Paulo: Nova Stella, 1988.
Mário Schenberg

"Their forms are deformations of a circle, or a series of concentric circles on three-dimensional surfaces, which result from other forms. In some cases, Toyota has, together, the exact geometry and deformed shape, reflected by a curved surface. In this case, changing the visual angle of the viewer changes the basic shape deformation and thus the image derivative is more understandable by the direct participation of the viewer during deforming. "

Bruno Munari

"What I like about Toyota is the sculpture of natural simplicity and not premeditated. The idea of using steel and color with its unpredictable consequences. They are objects that adapt to any environment and on a larger scale, the architecture itself. It seems that the purity of the steel material that attracts and may derive different shapes, or geometric construction. I see them on a larger scale as large metal signs, full of brightness and light and so beautiful that I would like to see incorporated into our architecture. "

Oscar Niemeyer

"Some see the circle geometry especially the idea that it references. But not only geometric symbol of living the good image that Toyota sets out your circles, and power would be out of the question whether examples symbolic of the literature was not involved a psychological inclination to substantiate what initially consider the "obsession of a circle ".

[...] Geometry and mathematics are effective means of knowledge that do not supplant or replace as of course the insights of creative imagination turned to the work of art. "

Geraldo Ferraz

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