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

" 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. "

" 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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" 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 will keep painting until I die. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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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. "