A Quote by Yayoi Kusama

Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions.

Yayoi Kusama

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Always Among Beings Billions Childhood Dots Earth Human Human Being Human Beings Made Moon Particle Polka Polka Dots Represent Since Single Sun Works

Quote Author

Yayoi Kusama
Japanese - Artist
Born: March 22, 1929

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.

Yayoi Kusama

Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

Yayoi Kusama

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.

Yayoi Kusama

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

Yayoi Kusama

I've always loved polka dots. Ah, oui. It is a joyful shape, the polka dot. It is alive.

Agnes Varda

I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my brothers. I am a dot myself.

Sigmar Polke

...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

Vincent Van Gogh

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.

Chuck Close

Polka dots are fabulous.

Yayoi Kusama

What am I thankful for? MY POLKA DOTS!!

Dusty Rhodes

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

Al Gore

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

Yayoi Kusama

When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing a line from dot number 1 to dot number 2 and so on. Most of all, I loved the moment when the chaotic sprinkle of dots resolved itself into a picture. That's what stories do. They connect the random dots of life into a picture. But it's all an illusion. Just try to connect the dots of life. You'll end up with a lunatic scribble.

Franny Billingsley

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

Ravyn Lenae

The universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we’ve got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it’s one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it’s countless other universes.