My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
Yayoi Kusama
Related I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin. NICOLA FORMICHETTI Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. BARRY MCGEE I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many so... OLIVER SACKS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into m... ELLSWORTH KELLY My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with ... CHEECH MARIN She was very irrational and having visions and hallucinations, GREGORY ALLEN From a medical standpoint, the third and the most probable explanation is that Jesus was indeed dead... ABHIJIT NASKAR In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adap... MARTHA STEWART I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can... AUBREY MCCLENDON When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the... JIM WOODRING I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not... CRAIG FERGUSON My aim was to show that delusions and hallucinations were not just specific symptoms of mental disea... CARL GUSTAV JUNG Barbara and I have been active in the art world for many years, and we believe it is important to su... DON BRYANT When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow brig... STEPHEN KING Slavery is bad, but even worse is blind discipleship to hallucinations. ABHIJIT NASKAR It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get ... H. L. MENCKEN It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get ... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tel... SIRI HUSTVEDT I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptur... YAYOI KUSAMA It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that... JOHN WYNDHAM Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. GEORGES SEURAT Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder... SHAWN AMOS The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are ... PAUL KLEE I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I'm using kites because I like drawing and making installations. Kites allow me to translate my draw... ED PIEN I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the st... BRITTANY HOWARD I've always worked from images that already exist in our culture, and I just tweak them - I phot... MARILYN MINTER Fall in love with you? How could I fall in love with you when I loved you with every breath, every h... SKYE WARREN You can see the geometric designs in my sculptures - dealing with the lines and curves. PEARL FRYAR At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Did you just kiss me?" Will inquired. Magnus made a slip-second decision. "No." "I thought... CASSANDRA CLARE I got a few books on tourist attractions, and I studied a National Art Museum book. I saw some of th... CAROLINE LELAND Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adoration... ALLEN GINSBERG I want my paintings to create distance from the real world. When I look at this art, I want to get i... DON VINCENT Art is the only thing that can save me from my opinions about the world. I tend to get very worked u... DAVID DOBKIN If the side effects of an antidepressant drug are hallucinations telling you to kill yourself, there... RANDOLPH GORDON Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art. JOSH PECK In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a s... OLIVER SACKS Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell'... DAVID HANSON Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himse... ÉMILE DURKHEIM There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate... NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Some powerful magnificence not human in other words, seemed under me. And it was the same mild pink ... SAUL BELLOW Patients with DID or other dissociative disorders may be misdiagnosed as Schizophrenics on account o... ETZEL CARDENA There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really ... THOMAS PYNCHON I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show... SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can sh... SAMUEL JOHNSON The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Its authority is lost. In its place there is a ... JOHN BERGER Gavin, I can’t talk to you here. People will call me crazy." My imaginary friend smirk... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I like wearing beautiful clothes, but that does not translate into my work. People don't like to... SONAM KAPOOR For me, I see filmmaking as art. EMILY BROWNING I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland. YAYOI KUSAMA Religion has no work in justifying the man-made imaginations, hallucinations and delusions of the wo... ABHIJIT NASKAR MISERABLE Release the toxic and infectious- Spreaders of misery, Souls destroyi... GIORGE LEEDY Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings. H. R. GIGER For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and ... HANS-ULRICH OBRIST The only love originates from the light in the soul. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many p... JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings... RACHEL ROY It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only ... OSCAR WILDE My Mom and Dad and brother have grown through the years into my closest friends, the people who tell... SHAUNA NIEQUIST These were not the type of paintings that make it into the coffee-table art books. DALE GUTHRIE When I'm on vacation, I go to art shops. I look at other sculptures, magazines and books. It's all a... JOE NELSON All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, a... CHAUNCEY WRIGHT I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art. DAVID FURNISH I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a ... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Thinking back, I can almost feel the air in the commons that day, the things eddying around us. We w... MEREDITH MILLER There was a song I heard when I was in Los Angeles by a local group. The song was called ‘Los Ange... BRET EASTON ELLIS there was a song i heard when i was in los angeles by a local group. the song was called "los angele... BRET EASTON ELLIS Longing, wanting, needing are not feelings but hallucinations created by our mind as when we achieve... FAYE STEVENSON Of course the people in the metro didn't see a thing!...what a joke! petrified ratlets! but they'll ... LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then creat... SETH GODIN I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the reli... IRVING STONE You think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attendance upon my old age;They were not such a... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS After 10 years, the family moved and the wall was painted over by the new residents. I wish the prev... KARL HEPNER It doesn't matter at all for me that I work in hospital or anywhere with limited space. Every da... YAYOI KUSAMA I want to become more famous, even more famous. YAYOI KUSAMA I never have a plan of what I am going to draw. 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