Yayoi Kusama quote: "Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art."

I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.
NICOLA FORMICHETTI

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something...
ELIE WIESEL

I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to te...
THOMAS KINKADE

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opini...
RENé DESCARTES

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the serv...
OLUSEGUN OBASANJO

My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship witho...
EDVARD MUNCH

My biggest challenge in life has been teaching myself that I am capable of enough, just as I am. Emp...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within bo...
T. HARV EKER

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer be...
JAMES JOYCE

I devote my life in service of humanity.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through ...
BILL DE BLASIO

I devote my sacred life to the service of humanity.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life st...
IKE TURNER

I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or ...
JAMES JOYCE

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and wha...
KASKADE

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myse...
THOMAS MERTON

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that i...
NAT WOLFF

I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't ...
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS

abundant feeling of your presence in front of Allah is enjoy full solitude state where you are in bo...
M.I.SHAIKH MY SELF

I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will de...
OLUSEGUN OBASANJO

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
RICHARD FOREMAN

Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways...
PATRICK NESS

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged enduran...
ALBERT EINSTEIN

I think that the story of my life is not all about me, but mostly of my friends. After all, it is no...
NICOLE MEYER

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about pa...
MICHAEL SHERMER

You see death is a tool to degrade and destroy people, I see it as a life lesson that I use to empow...
ANGEL RAMON MEDINA

I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.
LEIGH BARDUGO

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I thin...
JEFF KOONS

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide...
ANTONIN ARTAUD

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
ANON.

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
ANONYMOUS

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking...
BEDE GRIFFITHS

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is mysel...
VICTOR HUGO

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the ...
VIGGO MORTENSEN

I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-a...
DANA SPIOTTA

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I...
FRANK HERBERT

My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the produ...
JEREMY ALDANA

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike pain...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard bec...
SHANNON L. ALDER

This is my empire, Uriang-Khadai. I will not be made to leave. Ready the tumans for battle, O...
CONN IGGULDEN

I know my heart will never be the same
But I'm telling myself I'll be okay
SARA EVANS

Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in ...
SAM SHEPPARD

I was amazed at what [God] showed me. I prayed that I would devote my life to it.
JAMES FITZGERALD

I am not answerable to what happens with my personal life.
DHANUSH

I always had pressure on myself through my life. I put pressure on myself and not from other people....
MEEK MILL

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorab...
VICTORIA WOODHULL

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I...
FRANZ KAFKA

I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm consta...
CARY ELWES

If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get ...
TIONNE WATKINS

I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current s...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

I must—to be honest—add that my ministry almost certainly helped me through my adolescence by gi...
JAMES BALDWIN

To all my enemies, I will destroy you.
FRANKIE BOYLE

To all my enemies, I will destroy it.
FRANKIE BOYLE

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrific...
LEO TOLSTOY

There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to thi...
STEVE MARABOLI

I will not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I...
FRANK HERBERT

This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this b...
JANDY NELSON

I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
BELA KAROLYI

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in ...
BUBBA SPARXXX

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
JAMES JOYCE

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works
JAMES JOYCE

I remember Iggy and the Stooges' song 'Search and Destroy' reaching out from my speakers...
NIKKI SIXX

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
FRANK STELLA

No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own s...
STEVE MARABOLI

I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I need...
SPENCER JOHNSON

I certainly wanted mine to show. I love my body art.... I specifically chose a dress to show off my ...
DENNIS MCELVEY

From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my though...
FERNANDO PESSOA

I hope people will see the spirituality and the meaning of life, death, light and shadow. It's my ar...
CHIQUI EZCURRA MULLER

I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the...
CAMILLE DUVALL

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
HEDY LAMARR

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing ...
EDIE FALCO

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
JEANETTE WINTERSON

Past is experience and future an illusion, both being mostly useless because the change is in every ...
LEO KKS

one day I will tell you a story. A story that will make you ponder. A story that will make you wonde...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
FRANK STELLA

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.
ROBERTO CAVALLI

No Blame: The most liberating & empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own sel...
STEVE MARABOLI

I come personally from a broken family, divorced very early in my childhood, a family with its own s...
BILL DE BLASIO

It would never be both Michael and myself running because as a mother ... I would never put my child...
PAULA ZAHN

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my in...
BILL BRYSON

I'm surrounded by geniuses, which is really not good for my own personal self-esteem!
AISHA TYLER

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into ...
DAN DEACON

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life...
WINONA RYDER

In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly pr...
HANNAH KEARNEY

I'm not gonna lie and say it's easy. I separate my work and my personal life. Work is work.
SOPHIA BUSH

I’m interested in connecting with readers and strangers through poetry. I want to create real inti...
ALEX DIMITROV

I will ask no more of life than this:
that I might love you through all my days,
and that ...
ROBERT SEXTON

How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own ...
CHARLES YU

I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
M. F. HUSAIN

We Are All Zeros But We Can Make Ourselves As Heroes
DR. ARUN S SON

I always separated sports and my personal life.
CARL LEWIS

In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
ZARA LARSSON

It's about individual women and their personal tragedies, ... The play traces the arc of the grievin...
BRAD WRIGHT

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

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