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.
Interpretation
Focus on the quality and value of your work rather than just its market price.
Yayoi Kusama emphasizes the importance of dedicating oneself to the creation of meaningful and valuable art, suggesting that the true worth of artwork lies in the effort and passion invested in it rather than its eventual financial success. This approach encourages artists to prioritize their creative process and intrinsic value over market trends and profitability.
In practice
In a speech to young artists at a gallery opening.
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.'
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.
He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.
Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads β as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world
There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates a character. She understood photography, and she also understood what makes a great photograph. She related to it as if she were giving a performance. She gave more to the still camera than any actress-any woman- I've ever photographed.
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
I don't want people at my shows to come out and say, 'I just saw a cool show.' I want them to say, 'I had fun at the show.' I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.
As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.
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