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.

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 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.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Anger gets me going.Hope sustains me.

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.

Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.