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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with them. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I will keep painting until I die. "

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

" The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty. "

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

" Polka dots are fabulous. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "