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Yayoi Kusama

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Yayoi Kusama is a celebrated Japanese artist known for her immersive installations and polka dots. Born on March 22, 1929, she has been a significant figure in the art world for decades, influencing many artists and viewers with her unique and often surreal creations.

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“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.”

Art Philosophy Earth Universe Stars Millions Sun Mystery Circumstances Moon Just One Repetition Dots Unfathomable Polka Polka Dots

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“I believe that eyes are very important motifs. Thats something that can discern the peace and love.”

Believe Important Eye I Believe And Love Peace And Love Motifs

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“I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.”

Modern Wonderland

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

Art Wanted Revolution

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“I want to become more famous, even more famous.”

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“Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.”

Ifs Has Beens I Can Reason Seems Asks Childhood Special Painting Drawing Ask Me Dots Hallucinations

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“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.”

Writing Art Past Artist Serious Members Behavior Angry Presses Pursuit

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“My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.”

Ideas Inspiration Creativity Source Ideas And Creativity Source Of Inspiration

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“I would like to dedicate to the whole world a great message. It is a message from Kusama who has struggled to survive as a human being and as an artist, and whose life has been brightly lit and strengthened by her pursuit of truth.”

World Humans Has Beens Whole Artist Human Beings Messages Pursuit Whole World Lit

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“It is my wish to leave a message to the whole world from the universe, a message of love and peace to the people of the world.”

People World Whole Universe Wish Messages Whole World Peace And Love My Wish

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“I always see these landscapes in my dreams, and feel happy. I desperately try to transform these dreams into artwork, so that even while napping, I construct and reconstruct various images.”

Feels Trying Dream Various Landscape Constructs Artwork

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“You know, I must really work hard. I'm in the last stage of my artistic life. But I'm so busy that I can't even think of dying. I fly all over the world, drive everywhere, and when I get home, I find interviewers and photographers and TV shows waiting for me. No wonder I'm so busy.”

Thinking Knows World I Can Hard Shows Home Lasts Waiting Wonder Stage Dying Tvs Hard Work Photographer Busy Artistic Tv Shows Interviewers Artistic Life

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“Now our Earth is swarmed with issues such as life, death, illness, wars, economic crises and many others. It is time that we sing out loud the message, 'Love forever.'”

War Earth Forever Economic Crisis Illness Life Death Forever Love

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“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.”

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“I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for the truth. Working on paintings is a process toward my artistic creation. It is a new spiritual theme of my whole philosophy for pursuing the truth. Each painting represents a process in all of my art.”

People Art Philosophy Spiritual Struggle Creation Painting Illness Mental Illness Artistic Glorious Emptiness

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“I have a lot left inside. I believe my art will last 500 years, 1,000 years and forever. For me, art is everything. I will strive to create works of art until I die, in the hope that my work will continue to touch the hearts of people even after I have died.”

People Believe Heart Art I Believe Forever Art Is Strive

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“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.”

Heart Art Praise Bottom Enthusiastic Admirer

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“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.”

Art Pain Fighting Found Path Anxiety Creating Method Illness Thread Creating Art Anxiety And Fear

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Source: Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

“Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.”

Body Environment Unity Our Environment Dots Polka Polka Dots

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

Mind Ideas Vision Flood

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“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.”

Thinking Art Important Artist Roles Share Peace And Love

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“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.”

Thinking Looks Ends Able Beautiful Heaven Clouds Climbs Rise Above Stairs Beautiful Life Above The Clouds

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“My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my works in pastels are the products of obsessional neurosis and are therefore inextricably connected to my disease. I create pieces even when I don’t see hallucinations, though.”

Art I Can Pieces Painting Products Disease Connected Translate Sculpture Plague Neurosis Hallucinations Pastel

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“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.”

Way Self Forget Environment Self Love Clothes Destruction Eternity Making Love Our Environment Forget You Self Destruction

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

Ifs Long Art Long Time Long Time Ago

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“I am just another dot in the world”

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“My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots.”

Life Is Lost Dots

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“Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art.”

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“The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'”

Process Eating Sculpture Machinery Spats Revulsion Macaroni

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“A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.”

People World Way Two Whole Form Three Energy Sun Movement Moon Rounds Calm Whole World Symbols Live Life Infinity Dots Unknowing Colourful Polka Polka Dots

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Born: March 22, 1929
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 30

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