Yayoi Kusama Quotes

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Yayoi Kusama

Profession : Artist

Birth : March 22, 1929

New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.

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I will keep painting until I die.

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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

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While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

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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.

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I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

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Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.

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People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.

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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.

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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

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I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.

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I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.

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I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and 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.

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The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

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I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

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It doesn't matter at all for me that I work in hospital or anywhere with limited space. Every day, I'm creating new works with all my might.

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Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

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