When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
Interpretation
As we grow older and confront mortality, we may find deeper appreciation and vibrancy in life.
In this quote, Yayoi Kusama reflects on her childhood passion for painting and how, with age and the awareness of mortality, her life becomes richer and more vivid. It suggests that the inevitability of death brings a newfound clarity and intensity to the experience of living, encouraging individuals to embrace life's brightness despite its fleeting nature.
In practice
This quote can be shared during an art exhibit to inspire appreciation for creativity at all ages.
A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.
The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'
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.
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.
If you keep eating McDonald's, you gonna get sick. You need a real home-cooked meal. And I knew that that would be healthier. And that's what Wu-Tang was: It was a home-cooked meal of hip-hop. Of the real people.
Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life.
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra.
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...
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