I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
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… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
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… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
It is my wish to leave a message to the whole world from the universe, a message of love and peace to the people… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I would like to dedicate to the whole world a great message. It is a message from Kusama who has struggled to survive as… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body,… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I always see these landscapes in my dreams, and feel happy. I desperately try to transform these dreams into artwork, so that even while… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
