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" Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. "
Yayoi Kusama
Forget
Eternity
Environment
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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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" I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw. "
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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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" I want to become more famous, even more famous. "
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" I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life. "
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" Polka dots are fabulous. "
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" Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments. "
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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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" With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. 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.' "
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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 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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" I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love. "
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" I will keep painting until I die. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 painting so much that nothing else matters. "
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" Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions. "
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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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" I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day. "
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" 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. "
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" More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace. "
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