My art originates from hallucinations only I can s... -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 , Artist
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Yayoi Kusama Quotes to Explore

I want to become more famous, even more famous....
I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world....
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...
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....
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....
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 a...
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned....
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....
I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day....

Art Quotes to Explore

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also t...
Art is for everybody....
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully....
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible....
Art? That's a man's name....
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day....
Extreme complication is contrary to art....
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable....
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head a...
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the ...