Yayoi Kusama Quotes
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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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I will keep painting until I die.
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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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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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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.
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I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.
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Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.
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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.
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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.'
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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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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Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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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.
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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
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I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.