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.
In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.
When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.
As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.
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