Yayoi Kusama Quotes

After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is.

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I'm not a designer, I'm a creator.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.

What I do is create images, period.

All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

Technology adds nothing to art.

Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work.

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

What I love is to create a show and for people to enjoy it and be aware that's what it is: a show.

One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren't lost forever; they live in your work.