“Just as Bodhidharma spent ten years facing a stone wall, I spent as much as a month facing a single pumpkin. I regretted even having to take time to sleep,” Yayoi Kusama recalled in her autobiography, Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama . The quote reflects the extraordinary concentration she brought to painting pumpkins during her early years as an artist. The passage has been reproduced and attributed to Kusama by Christie’s and Sotheby’s, as well as in academic writing citing her autobiography.
