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.
Interpretation
Focus on the quality and value of your work rather than just its market price.
Yayoi Kusama emphasizes the importance of dedicating oneself to the creation of meaningful and valuable art, suggesting that the true worth of artwork lies in the effort and passion invested in it rather than its eventual financial success. This approach encourages artists to prioritize their creative process and intrinsic value over market trends and profitability.
In practice
In a speech to young artists at a gallery opening.
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.
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.
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.
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.
Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire.
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.
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