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I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.

Yayoi Kusama

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Yayoi Kusama
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: March 22
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Conceptual Artist
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Kusama Yayoi
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I always see these landscapes in my dreams, and feel happy. I desperately try to transform these dreams into artwork, so that even while napping, I construct and reconstruct various images.
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If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago.
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
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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.'
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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.
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My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.
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