Polka dots are fabulous.

I will keep painting until I die.

I am just another dot in the world

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

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

I want to become more famous, even more famous.

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots.

The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

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

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago.

Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art.

Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.

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

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

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

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

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

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. Thats something that can discern the peace and love.

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

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

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

Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.

While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.

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

It is my wish to leave a message to the whole world from the universe, a message of love and peace to the people of the world.

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.

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.

The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with them.

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.

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.

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.

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 have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

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.

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

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.

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 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 read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.

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.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

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.

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.

Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace.

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

There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.

Now our Earth is swarmed with issues such as life, death, illness, wars, economic crises and many others. It is time that we sing out loud the message, 'Love forever.'

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