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Polka dots are fabulous.

I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.

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

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

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

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

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.

I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day.

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

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

I will keep painting until I die.

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.

I am just another dot in the world

I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

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.

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

The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

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

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.

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.

Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

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.

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

I want to become more famous, even more famous.

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

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

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

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.

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.

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.