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

I will keep painting until I die.

I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.

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 avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.

With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'

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.

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.

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

I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.

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