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

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

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.

I am just another dot in the world

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.

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

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

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.

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.

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

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

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Damn where my roof just go, I'm somebody that you should know Get to shakin somethin cause that's what Drama produced it fo'

We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?