Yoko Ono Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Every drop in the ocean counts.

  Yoko Ono

  Beach, Art, Ocean

• But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Art And Music

  Interview With Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2008.

• I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Verbs, Nouns

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  Yoko Ono

  Beautiful, Art, Children

• Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Creativity, Controversy

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2009.

• I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Creativity, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, World, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Artist, Metronomes

• Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Thinking, Wizards

• Art is my life and my life is art.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Life Is, Art Is

  Twitter post from Aug 28, 2015

• Art is a way of survival.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Survival, Way

  Twitter post from Dec 15, 2012

• Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Breathing, Happens

  "Yoko Ono on Lennon, Love, Feminism, and Japan". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 22, 2011.

• The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, World, Kind

• If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Moving, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Museums, Matter

  "Yoko Ono answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2012.

• I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Children, Powerful

• The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Cutting, Ideas

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

• Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Play, Interesting

• Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Effort, Half

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2017

• I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Successful, World

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

• Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Age, Desire

• 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 is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Memories, Believe

• I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, School, Ideas

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

• There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Creating, Hey

  "Yoko Ono On Lennon, Love, Feminism, And Japan". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 22, 2011.

• Art for me is like breathing.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Breathing

  "Yoko Ono On Lennon, Love, Feminism, And Japan". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 22, 2011.

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