It doesn't matter at all for me that I work in hospital or anywhere with limited space. Every day, I'm creating new works with all my might.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of creativity and passion over the limitations of one's environment.
In this quote, Yayoi Kusama highlights that regardless of the restrictions imposed by her surroundings, such as working in a hospital with limited space, her dedication to creating art remains unwavering. This reflects a mindset that values the process of creation and the effort put into it, rather than being hindered by physical constraints, suggesting that true creativity can thrive anywhere when fueled by determination.
In practice
This quote can inspire artists to pursue their passion regardless of limitations.
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.
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.
The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'
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.
Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
The fun for me musically is that you never quite know what works and why. So why pretend you do? Why not just put things together and discover, in the creative process, if and why they work? That approach has served me well.
You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.
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