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What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
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City of Tokyo
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I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.
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The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
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