Yoko Ono Quotes

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

A picture is like a prayer.

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

Be creative in that sense and your creativity will become an offering to God. God has given you so many gifts, Garima; something HAS to be done just in deep thankfulness. But remember: with no motive, not as a means but as an end unto itself. Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake, and prayer for prayer's sake.

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about politics - in fact, heaven forbid. But politics is a totally legitimate area of focus for any art, whether it's painting or songwriting or anything else, as much as sex is, as much as spirituality is, as much as any other behavior of people is.

It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.