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All Quotes by author - Yayoi Kusama

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

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

" Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. "

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

" I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day. "

" I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love. "

" If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself. "

" I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world. "

" I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland. "

" 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. "

" I love painting so much that nothing else matters. "

" I never have a plan of what I am going to draw. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned. "

" I want to become more famous, even more famous. "

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

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

" I will keep painting until I die. "

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

" 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. "

" My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. "

" My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man. "

" 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. "

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

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