I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
Yayoi Kusama
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.
I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this... →
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
Rachel Kushner
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions... →
Tony Kushner