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

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

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

The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

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.

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.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

The whole mythological side of 'Twin Peaks' was really down to me, and I've always known about the Theosophical writers and that whole group around the Order of the Golden Dawn in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century - W. B. Yeats, Madame Blavatsky, and a woman called Alice Bailey, a very interesting writer.

People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.

Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.