Yoko Ono Quotes

The artist is called a creator.

Art always demands of us something new.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

Any good music must be an innovation.

When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a real creative process.

I get a lot of joy out of covering other people's songs, and, at my best, I think I bring something a little new to a lot of them.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it's tight, then the world is going to think it's tight.

What I like is finding new angles on genres.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

I'm always trying to experiment and come up with new palettes of sound and new combinations of music that you haven't really seen or heard in film before.

Schiaparelli symbolizes the capacity to think and create in a different way.