Yayoi Kusama is among TIME’s annual 100 Most Influential People List, celebrated by designer Marc Jacobs in a short profile piece.  “Her eyes never left mine, and she held my hand often as she talked to me,” Jacobs writes.  “She kept repeating certain phrases: ‘We must create, we must create, it’s important that we create.’ We spent a few hours together, and every time I tried to leave, she’d pull me back in. It made perfect sense with the art she creates—the intensity, the repetition. She just felt like the embodiment of what she makes.”
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