Accepting Quote by Yoko Ono Download Open image “The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.” — Yoko Ono ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accepting Ahead Art Art world Kind My time Time Work World
I don't keep up with the art world. It's out there and if I did that too much, I wouldn't get my own work… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to exist in the world and realizing that it was just my lot to be a person and to live in the world. See, the normal world dissolves in these experiences, and you realize that it is just an… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share
I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts. — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
You have to write and develop and wait for the world to catch up to your art. — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever really decided I was an artist. I went to college to learn how to think and look at art.… — Gavin Turk Copy Share Image
Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
No one really had to encourage me to become an artist; it was just something I knew I had to do. I was drawn… — Keiynan Lonsdale Copy Share Image
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake. — Peggy Guggenheim 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
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.… — Alan Abel Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image