Latest Yayoi Kusama Quotes from Interviews

• 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.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Art, Believe, People

  Source: travel.cnn.com

• 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.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Art, Praise, Admirer

  Source: travel.cnn.com

• 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.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Spiritual, Art, Philosophy

  Source: travel.cnn.com

• 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.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Art, Critics

  Source: travel.cnn.com

• 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.'

  Yayoi Kusama

  War, Forever, Earth

  Source: travel.cnn.com

• 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.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Hard Work, Home, Thinking

  Source: theendofcollection.wordpress.com

• 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.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Dream, Trying, Landscape

  Source: theendofcollection.wordpress.com

• 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.

  Yayoi Kusama

  People, Wish, World

  Source: autre.love

• 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.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Artist, World, Messages

  Source: autre.love

• 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.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Art, Writing, Past

  Source: autre.love

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

  Yayoi Kusama

  Inspiration, Creativity, Ideas

  Source: autre.love

• 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.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Drawing, Childhood, Special

  Source: autre.love