“I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy t...” — Yayoi Kusama Quote

I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.

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.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

Fans watching need to be able to connect the dots in your match and the story that you're trying to tell.

If anyone has the opportunity to connect the dots and look at the directors I've worked with, from TV to film, there are some heavy hitters, from Taylor Hackford to John Singleton.

I'm really into color. I love polka dots, rainbows, any pattern.

Today, in 2011, if you go and buy a color laser printer from any major laser printer manufacturer and print a page, that page will end up having slight yellow dots printed on every single page in a pattern which makes the page unique to you and to your printer. This is happening to us today. And nobody seems to be making a fuss about it.