Yoko Ono Quotes

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.

You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in any way possible, provided you're prepared to live with the consequences.

Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.

The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.

I try never to say no when it comes to creativity, but I do try and lead down an "appropriate road" - like not on furniture or the walls.

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.

Stop this agony of wishing Play it out Don't think, don't hesitate Curving back within yourself Just create... Just create

All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

I don't look at myself on the outside. Sometimes you feel like you're not really there and need one more [take], because I feel like something is coming out. I don't really know what but I need to get it out.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

The nice thing about being on stage is it's not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I'm up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.