Yayoi Kusama never stopped creating until her death at 97. Here’s what she said about productivity and aging.

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, best known for her colorful, polka-dot-covered artwork and sculptures, has died. She was 97.

Kusama’s official website announced her death on Thursday, saying in a statement that the artist had died in a Tokyo hospital on August 14. It did not specify a cause of death.

“She continued to paint until her final days, never setting aside her brush, and continued exploration of forever love and eternal soul,” the statement read.

Born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929, Kusama experienced visions and hallucinations from a young age that would later become central to her art .

Over the years, Kusama’s body of work grew to…

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