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

Yayoi Kusama Quotes

Japanese - Artist Born: March 22, 1929

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

Rise Above, Think, I Think

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

Eternity, Forget, Part

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

Through, Dot, Pursuing

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, Dots, Environments

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

Art, Society, Using

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

Love, Peace And Love, Very

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

Always, Billions, Works

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

Art, Images, Sculptures

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

Modern, Wonderland, Alice

Polka dots are fabulous. Yayoi Kusama

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

Ideas, Vision, Mind

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

Peace, World, Contribute

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

New, New Mexico, Then

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, Dot, Putting

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, Think, I Think

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

Love, Matters, I Love

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

Through, However, Devote

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

My Life, Through, Sculptures

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

New, Limited, Works

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

Rest, Been, Very

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. Yayoi Kusama

My Life, Been, Assistants

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

Dots, Over, Merging

In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. Yayoi Kusama

Country, Shop, Very

I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way. Yayoi Kusama

Love, Symbol, Joining

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

I Am, Never, Going

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

Artist, Against, Marry

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