Author: Yayoi Kusama

Quotes

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

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

- Yayoi Kusama

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.

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

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

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

- Yayoi Kusama

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

- Yayoi Kusama

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.

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.

- Yayoi Kusama

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

- Yayoi Kusama

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.

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

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