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Yayoi Kusama - From the Achievement category:
With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Communication category:
It is my wish to leave a message to the whole world from the universe, a message of love and peace to the people of the world. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Desire category:
I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Eccentricity category:
I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Ego category:
By obliterating one's individual self, one returns to the infinite universe. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Environment category:
Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Fame category:
I want to become more famous, even more famous. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Fashion category:
Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Future category:
I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Ideas category:
I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Individuality category:
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Life category:
My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Love category:
I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Masters category:
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Materials category:
In front of paint brushes and canvas, my hands react to them and make my work before I think of anything. Then, when the piece is completed, I look at it, and am surprised by the result - always. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Movement category:
Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Obsession category:
I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Obsession category:
I love painting so much that nothing else matters. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Planning category:
I never have a plan of what I am going to draw. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Problems category:
Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Profession category:
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Renewal category:
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Selling category:
You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Struggle category:
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Suffering category:
I fight pain, anxiety and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Suffering category:
A true direction will come from overcoming adversity. Everyone - think deeply, fight harder and obtain splendid direction for your life. I wish for you to gain guidance from your deep thinking and spread your ideas all over the world in order to establish a wonderful life and world. I think that it is very important. Let's fight together for it. It is my strongest wish as an artist. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Survival category:
Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self-obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Symbols category:
A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Symbols category:
I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Universe category:
In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing philosophy of the universe through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call stereotypical repetition. (Yayoi Kusama)
Yayoi Kusama - From the Work category:
I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life. (Yayoi Kusama)
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