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

Yayoi Kusama Quotes

Japanese - Artist Born: March 22, 1929

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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. Yayoi Kusama

Life, Beautiful, Clouds

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

Yourself, Environment

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.' Yayoi Kusama

Art, Moon, Stars

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. Yayoi Kusama

Nature, Unity, Alone

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. Yayoi Kusama

Moon, Childhood, Sun

Polka dots are fabulous. Yayoi Kusama

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

I love painting so much that nothing else matters. Yayoi Kusama

Love, Painting, Matters

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

Mother, Man, Artist

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. Yayoi Kusama

Life, Future, Deep

I will keep painting until I die. Yayoi Kusama

Painting, Die, Will

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

Love, Peace, Eyes

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

Art, Myself, Society

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

I Am, Plan, Never

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

Vision, Mind, Ideas

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

Art, Time, Struggle

I want to become more famous, even more famous. Yayoi Kusama

Famous, Want, Become

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. Yayoi Kusama

Art, World, Child

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

Want, I Can, Create

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland. Yayoi Kusama

Modern, Wonderland, Alice

If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself. Yayoi Kusama

Myself, Horse, Cat

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. Yayoi Kusama

Life, Death, Day

Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene. Yayoi Kusama

Body, Strange, Create

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. Yayoi Kusama

Love, Peace, Artist

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. Yayoi Kusama

Work, You, Price

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. Yayoi Kusama

Work, Space, Day

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