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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Polka dots are fabulous. "

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

" 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. "