When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

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.

When you love and it hurt, love more and love without expectation.

It was hope that brought me love.

He was one of life’s great helpers, for he cleaned up foul places and made them sweet.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

If you want to increase your self-confidence as a yoga teacher very fast – go out there, face your fears, and teach as much as you possibly can!

The brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived.

I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know, whether it's cults or whether it's suicide bombers.

The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.