Did Yayoi Kusama really say 'I want to erase myself with polka dots. I want to become one with the universe.'?

Yayoi Kusama Quote Source & Citation:

I want to erase myself with polka dots. I want to become one with the universe.

— Yayoi Kusama Contemporary · Polka dot artist, lives in asylum by choice

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Artist statement

Date: 1968

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