Yoko Ono Quotes

As a kid I was creative.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I like being creative.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to see a blue duck.

Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

All children have creative power.

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

Make good art.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.