Home » Yayoi Kusama Yayoi Kusama Yayoi Kusama 1 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 York, Live Add to Collection 2 I will keep painting until I die. Yayoi Kusama Painting, Die, Will Add to Collection 3 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, Work, Respect Add to Collection 4 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, Day, Death Add to Collection 5 I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day. Yayoi Kusama Day, Morning, Effort Add to Collection 6 Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion. Yayoi Kusama Believe, Fashion Add to Collection 7 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 Life, Work, Myself Add to Collection 8 Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe. Yayoi Kusama Universe, Painting, Patterns Add to Collection 9 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, Price Add to Collection 10 I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love. Yayoi Kusama Love, Philosophy, Thought Add to Collection 11 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. Yayoi Kusama Work, Art, People Add to Collection 12 I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw. Yayoi Kusama Want, Self Confidence, Create Add to Collection 13 I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan. Yayoi Kusama New York, Years, New Add to Collection 14 My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man. Yayoi Kusama Mother, Man, Rich Add to Collection 15 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, Day, Future Add to Collection 16 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, Child, World Add to Collection 17 The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty. Yayoi Kusama Country, Royalty, Wonderful Add to Collection 18 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, Day, Space Add to Collection 19 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 Art, Home, Book Add to Collection 20 I want to become more famous, even more famous. Yayoi Kusama Famous, Want, More Add to Collection 21 While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me. Yayoi Kusama Day, Time, Art Add to Collection 22 I never have a plan of what I am going to draw. Yayoi Kusama I Am, Plan, Going Add to Collection 23 Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Yayoi Kusama Yourself, Environment Add to Collection 24 I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision. Yayoi Kusama Vision, Ideas, mind Add to Collection 1 2 next › last »