Yayoi Kusama In Infinity     9/1715 – 01/24/16

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

“Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment”

“If I were not Kusama, I would say she is a good artist. I’d think she is outstanding.”

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“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.”

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“I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.”

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“Since I rely on my own interior imagination, I am not concerned with whatever they want to say about me.”

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“I will keep painting until I die.”

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

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“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.”

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“I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That’s why I’m in a wheelchair: I’ve been doing it physically – it’s hard labour – throughout my life.”

Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929. She has lived the last 26 years in a private psychiatric hospital in Japan and has been extraordinarily productive.