Author Profile
Yayoi Kusama
1929 • Japanese • Artist
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Collected Meditations
Showing 42 quotesI would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.— Yayoi Kusama
I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day.— Yayoi Kusama
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.— Yayoi Kusama
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
I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.— Yayoi Kusama
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
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
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
I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.— Yayoi Kusama
Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.— Yayoi Kusama
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
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
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.— Yayoi Kusama
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
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
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