Quotes from Yayoi Kusama:
I convert the energy of life, into dots of the universe. And that energy along with love, flies into the sky.
我将生命力与自然全都，转化为宇宙里的圆点，然后，那股生命，便与爱一起，振翅飞走了。
Among waves of people, I have managed to survive this long life. How many times did I think about putting a knife to my neck seeking death, I collected my thoughts and got up again. I wish for life's bright sunshine. I want to live forever.
在鱼贯来往的人潮中，我奋力打拼如此多个年月，不知有多少次都想拿刀自刎寻死，然后重整思绪，重新站起，我渴望生命灿烂的阳光，然后无限地活到人生的尽头。
My work is based on develogping my psychological problems into art. Obsession, accumulation is the result of my obsession, and that philosophy is the main theme of my art. Accumulation means that the stars in the universe don't exist by themselves, nor does the earth exist by itself.
到头来我的作品，就是将我的心理问题转化为艺术，强迫症，强迫症的结果就是聚积，聚积的哲学，就是我的作品最重要的主题，聚积代表着，宇宙中的星星并非单独存在，地球也不是单独存在，整个宇宙就是星球的聚积。
When i voiced that I was against the war, even my friends and family told me that I had lost my mind. I believe that such a horrible war should never be repeated. I made my art to try and change people's minds about the love in the world that can last forever, and I wanted to spread hope to the world through my artwork.
很多人都被洗脑得很厉害，当我说我反对战争，连我的家人朋友都说我疯了，我认为那么可怕的事绝对不该再有，我想用作画来改变大家的心，相信世上的爱与和平能持续到永远，我想用作品将希望散布到全世界。
Quotes from Munroe:
Kusama describes drawing as a child, and her mother sneaking up behind her and tearing the picture out of her daughter's hands. And that sense of hysteria and panic, I think, informs Kusama's own process of making art, where she is working so fast and so furiously to finish a work before it is torn from her.
草间描述她小时候画画，母亲会偷偷从后面靠近，把画从女儿手中夺走，我认为那种歇斯底里与惊慌，影响了草间的艺术创作过程，她十万火急的创作，来完成作品，免得被夺走。
She's talked to me about being in this field of flowers on her family's farm, where she had wandered in. Some kind of trauma happened in the field.
她跟我谈过她在自家农场里，无意间走入一片花田，在那里受到某种创伤，四周有很多很多的花，放眼望去，到处是花的残影，有一种被花抹灭了自我的感觉。