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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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" 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. "

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

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

" 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 will keep painting until I die. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Polka dots are fabulous. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "