Yayoi Kusama Quotes

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

Painting completed my life.

I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

If there's anything I can promise is that I'm gonna paint till the last breath.

I've always been passionate about movies, TV, and writing, and I've been working so hard at it for so long. There were lots of setbacks, but I loved it so much, there was no alternative.

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I want to die painting.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

I have sworn to die painting.

Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

As a child, play, drawing, and painting were important to me - they still are.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

My work is more to me than just music.