Yoko Ono Quotes
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
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In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
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I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
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I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.