"If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago,"

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Source : "Yayoi Kusama Birthday: The Polka Dot Queen Of Avant-Garde Art Turns 84", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

Yayoi Kusama

#Art Quotes #Long Quotes

“I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.”
“One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.”
“The only way to find out is to find out.”
“I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.”
“We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.”
“My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people starved, half a million of its children killed, its infrastructure severely damaged, after making sure that most of its weapons have been destroyed, in an act of cowardice that must surely be unrivalled in history, the 'Allies' / 'Coalition of the Willing' (better known as the Coalition of the Bullied and Bought) - sent in an invading army!”
“Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself”

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