Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image