Yayoi Kusama:

I want to commit suicide by art.

— Yayoi Kusama Contemporary

Polka dot artist, lives in asylum by choice

From a letter to a friend in the 1950s, quoted in 'Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective' book.

1950s

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