Yayoi Kusama Quotes
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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In moments of pain, we seek revenge.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
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We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
