Yayoi Kusama Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
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I don't die in anything!
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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Cézanne's painting is strictly painting, and its value is immense; but Van Gogh's painting has the Outsider's characteristic: it is a laboratory refuse of a man who treated his own life as an experiment in living; it faithfully records moods and developments of vision on the manner of a Bildungsroman.
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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.
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The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.
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I really believed Obama when he spoke in 2008, but I remember watching his victory speech after this last election and it was the same speech. Exactly the same speech. I felt like he didn't even believe it anymore. He seemed to be tired of saying the same thing.
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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
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I will keep painting until I die.
