"It has been said of many late-twentieth-century artists that their lives and their art are inseparable. This is true for Kusama, not in a figurative sense but in a concrete, visceral one. Kusama is the Infinity Net and the polka dot, two interchangeable motifs that she had adopted as her alter ego, her logo, her franchise and her weapon of incursion into the world at large. The countless artworks that she has produced and that carry Kusama’s nets and dots into the world, when seen as a whole, are the mere results of a rigorously disciplined and single-minded performance that has lasted for almost fifty years."
Laura Hoptman, “Yayoi Kusama: A Reckoning”, in: Laura Hoptmann, Yayoi Kusama, Akira Tatehata, Udo Kultermann, Catherine Taft, Eds, Yayoi Kusama, London 2000, p. 34.