Artist Quotes by Yayoi Kusama

I will keep painting until I die.

— Yayoi Kusama

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

— Yayoi Kusama

I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

— Yayoi Kusama

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

— Yayoi Kusama

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

— 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…

— Yayoi Kusama

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

— Yayoi Kusama

My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

— Yayoi Kusama

If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago,

— Yayoi Kusama

While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

— Yayoi Kusama

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden…

— Yayoi Kusama

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

— Yayoi Kusama

I have a lot left inside. I believe my art will last 500 years, 1,000 years and forever. For me, art is…

— Yayoi Kusama

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and…

— Yayoi Kusama

Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear…

— Yayoi Kusama

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

— Yayoi Kusama

There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious…

— Yayoi Kusama

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is…

— Yayoi Kusama

“The machinery of the sky that confounds us on earth with endless transformations of clouds in the light of dawn does not…

— Yayoi Kusama

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and…

— Yayoi Kusama

I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for…

— Yayoi Kusama

I would like to dedicate to the whole world a great message. It is a message from Kusama who has struggled to…

— Yayoi Kusama

When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my…

— Yayoi Kusama