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Yayoi Kusama Quotes:

Yayoi Kusama quotes

Ocupation: Artist

Life: b. March 22, 1929

Birthday: March 22

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

Topics: Dots, Life Is, Lost

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

Topics: Art, Problem

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.

Topics: Art, Stars, Philosophy, Polka, Polka Dots

A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.

source: - "Manhattan suicide addict". Book by Yayoi Kusama, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2005.

Topics: Live Life, Moon, Two, Polka, Polka Dots

I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.

source: - Yayoi Kusama (2013). “Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama”, p.60, Tate Enterprises Ltd

Topics: Art, Pain, Fighting, Creating Art, Anxiety And Fear

I am just another dot in the world

Topics: World, Dots

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.

Topics: Self, Clothes, Making Love

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

Topics: Believe, Eye, Important, Motifs

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

source: - "Yayoi Kusama Birthday: The Polka Dot Queen Of Avant-Garde Art Turns 84", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

Topics: Art, Long

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

Topics: Ideas, Mind, Vision

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

source: - Yayoi Kusama (2013). “Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama”, p.80, Tate Enterprises Ltd

Topics: Wonderland, Modern

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

source: - Yayoi Kusama (2013). “Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama”, p.124, Tate Enterprises Ltd

Topics: Art, Revolution, Wanted

The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'

Topics: Sculpture, Eating, Spats, Revulsion, Macaroni

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.

source: - "Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Infinite Obsession’ Heads To Brazil" By Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

Topics: Unity, Body, Dots, Polka, Polka Dots

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.

Topics: Beautiful, Thinking, Clouds, Above The Clouds

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.

source: - Source: autre.love

Topics: People, Wish, World

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my works in pastels are the products of obsessional neurosis and are therefore inextricably connected to my disease. I create pieces even when I don’t see hallucinations, though.

Topics: Art, Sculpture, Pieces, Pastel

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.'

source: - Source: travel.cnn.com

Topics: War, Forever, Earth, Forever Love

I would like to dedicate to the whole world a great message. It is a message from Kusama who has struggled to survive as a human being and as an artist, and whose life has been brightly lit and strengthened by her pursuit of truth.

source: - Source: autre.love

Topics: Artist, World, Messages

I always see these landscapes in my dreams, and feel happy. I desperately try to transform these dreams into artwork, so that even while napping, I construct and reconstruct various images.

source: - Source: theendofcollection.wordpress.com

Topics: Dream, Trying, Landscape

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.

Topics: Art, Thinking, Important

I have a lot left inside. I believe my art will last 500 years, 1,000 years and forever. For me, art is everything. I will strive to create works of art until I die, in the hope that my work will continue to touch the hearts of people even after I have died.

source: - Source: travel.cnn.com

Topics: Art, Believe, People

Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.

source: - Source: autre.love

Topics: Drawing, Childhood, Special

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

source: - Source: autre.love

Topics: Inspiration, Creativity, Ideas

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.

source: - Source: travel.cnn.com

Topics: Art, Critics

You know, I must really work hard. I'm in the last stage of my artistic life. But I'm so busy that I can't even think of dying. I fly all over the world, drive everywhere, and when I get home, I find interviewers and photographers and TV shows waiting for me. No wonder I'm so busy.

source: - Source: theendofcollection.wordpress.com

Topics: Artistic Life, Interviewers

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