Yayoi Kusama

“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.”

“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.”

“In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.”

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