Yayoi Kusama Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.”

“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.”

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

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