Yoko Ono Quotes

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

What is the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it.

I believe that all forms of creativity are related.

Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.

You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord.

That's what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.

Life and art are inseparable.

Invariably, collaboration leads to new forms of self-expression and to the things that move you.

Without creativity, I'd be just 'blah blah blah.'

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. So, thank you guys...