If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
Polka dots are fabulous.
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
It doesn't matter at all for me that I work in hospital or anywhere with limited space. Every day, I'm creating new works with all my might.
Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.
I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.
I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.
I will keep painting until I die.
New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.
Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.
You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.
I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.
I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
I want to become more famous, even more famous.
I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.
