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.
You hand the baton on, and that's why roles like 'Medea' resonate for years and years, as each new actor comes to it.
All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.
Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.
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