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Art is a way of survival.

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
Artist
Composer
Conceptual Artist
Film Director
Musician
Painter
Peace Activist
Performance Artist
Photographer
Recording Artist
Sculptor
City of Tokyo
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Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?
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I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.
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Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.
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All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.
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Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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Listen to the sound of the earth turning.
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Look at a star in the sky not as something unreachable but as a planet you would visit one day.
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Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.
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What is beauty? It's what you love.
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Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day.
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In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.
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Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.
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