I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.

Yayoi Kusama

Categorized in : Art Fighting Pain

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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning t... by Yayoi Kusama

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

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