When I paint, some things come out, and I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I have such talent as a painter. Yann Martel Read Quote
Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama’s hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe. Yann Martel Read Quote
I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw. Yann Martel Read Quote
I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love. Yann Martel Read Quote
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. Yann Martel Read Quote
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned. Yann Martel Read Quote
I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life. Yann Martel Read Quote
With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing ‘philosophy of the universe’ through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call ‘stereotypical repetition.’ Yann Martel Read Quote
Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions. Yann Martel Read Quote