Yoko Ono Quotes

Art is not only about angst.

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Art is the proper task of life.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

Art expresses man.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is.

I believe that creativity is an important human experience and element in the same way as sleeping, eating, having sex.

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

If it's taught well, art really is important to kids early on. It helps children develop language and allows them to see themselves in a way that isn't right or wrong, because if they draw an animal with five legs instead of four, nobody's criticizing them for it.

When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.

The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer.

I think being creative and making something that you can look at is so good for your brain and your soul. Nothing beats it.