Yoko Ono Quotes - Page 8

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

When you go through a negative situation, don’t think about it. Make it positive.

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. It's the male chauvinistic society that we're living in for the longest time, 3,000 years or whatever. And so I just wanted to point out the fact that men and women are magical beings. We are very blessed that way, so I'm just bringing that out. Don't be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power.

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in

I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.

We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

We know that our cells are speaking to each other.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.

You know harmony only exists in music-isn't that amazing? I think that if you see earth from very far away, the color is blue. That is very interesting because blue is the color of communication.

Stand in the evening light until you become transparent or until you fall asleep.

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.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

Music is like my security blanket.

You can't dance if you got too much muck in your head.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.