"I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned."

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Source : Yayoi Kusama (2013). “Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama”, p.124, Tate Enterprises Ltd

Yayoi Kusama

#Art Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol...”
“Nine lies on his back, groaning. His chest is shredded from where Eight slashed him, heâ€™s got a fresh black eye, and I think I notice a trickle of blood from where I struck him with his staff. Suddenly, his groans turn to laughter. â€œThat was awesome!â€ Nine hollers.”
“I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.”
“An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb”
“Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era in college, so when I read the script, I was, like, "I really want to be in this thing so badly..."”
“Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.”
“When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.”
“Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.”

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