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.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.

I am just another dot in the world.

I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day.

The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.

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.

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

I will keep painting until I die.

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.

I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.

Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions.

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

Polka dots are fabulous.

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.'