Yoko Ono
Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.Collection: Emotion
Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smileCollection: Mirrors
If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens.Collection: War
I'm just trying to do my best every day, hoping that I have done my best every day, and its very easy in a way, but also it's not that easy. Every day counts.Collection: Trying
We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.Collection: Crazy
Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.Collection: Optimistic
Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.Collection: Running
It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating.Collection: Believe
I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.Collection: Artist
I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. Don't be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power.Collection: Thinking
I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.Collection: Inspiration
There's a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send yourself somewhere, then you are sharing your information uncontrollably - like all yourself.Collection: Art
Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.Collection: Firsts
I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.Collection: Artist
The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.Collection: Art
I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.Collection: Art
I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.Collection: Believe
Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.Collection: Creativity
Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?Collection: War
It's better that you're criticized than complimented as a person.Collection: Persons
I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true.Collection: Art
Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which was breaking up the Beatles. That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong.Collection: Years
When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile.Collection: Down And
All wishes create an upswing line when it is manifested. Therefore, together, it becomes an incredible upswing of power, whatever you wished. Of course, the more high level wishes, which covers the whole human race is stronger than wishing for getting ice cream for your dessert!Collection: Ice Cream
I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.Collection: Ambition
Peace is here now. It's just that we don't recognize it. Let's say that 98 percent of people in the world are wanting peace. Now people say, even people from Siberia? Yes. We want world peace. The two percent is really tying to mess it up. It's so sad in a way, because by messing it up what are they going to get? Their children are going to suffer, their grandchildren are going to suffer, and they might even die before something gets good.Collection: Children
I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, "I don't think you can do it." I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.Collection: Strong
Our thoughts determine our age.Collection: Age
There's nothing bad about feminism. We have to help each other, because there's a lot of women in the world who are suffering because the fact is we're not equal. It's as plain as that. It's still a men's world. I don't know. We'll go on with it.Collection: Men
Getting into creating in a new genre is like arriving to a new country.Collection: Country
We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing is to communicate with other people.Collection: Reality
We mustn't be traditional in the way we communicate with people - especially with the Establishment. We should surprise people by saying new things in an entirely new way. Communication of that sort can have a fantastic power so long as you don't do only what they expect you to do.Collection: Communication
In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There’s no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.Collection: Communication
All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.Collection: Violence
My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.Collection: Decades
Art is a way of survival.Collection: Art
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.Collection: Smile
We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It’s crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.Collection: Crazy
Loneliness is equal to the radius of one’s awareness.Collection: Loneliness
People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can’t read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.Collection: Book
I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, “I don’t think you can do it.” I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.Collection: Strong
Love is an incredibly strong thing, it goes everywhere, it’s like water, you can’t stop it. Love, once you have it, once you create a kind of pathway for it to come out, it just keeps on coming out.Collection: Strong
My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It’s fun to experiment like that.Collection: Fun
Someday I’ll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.Collection: Stories
I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I’m feeling and what I’m thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!Collection: Book