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.

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

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

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

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.

Every person is an island in the sea of humanity.

I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'

Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything.

My career has been a slow burn, so waiting to do the Edinburgh Festival was a smart move. If I'd spent a month there 10-15 years ago, there's no way anyone was gonna remember me.

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?

When I see friends of mine break up and they're like, "Oh, we still really love each other, but we just couldn't make it work," I don't get that. I don't understand what that means. Make it work.