Yayoi Kusama Quotes

I'm an artist at heart.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know I will live forever.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

I came to photography by accident.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

It's what people create that makes my heart stop.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.

I have so much love for art.

I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.