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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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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
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I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.
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The war industry people are very together they know exactly what they want they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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You are beautiful. Don't ever think you are not. It may be such a compliment that does not come from a man too often. They are shy, proud, and rude. Give yourself some love. And walk as what you are - a beautiful woman. All your life.
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I trust myself. You need that to survive.
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
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I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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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.
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When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
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I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages.
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The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
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Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky
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Being alone is very difficult.
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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.
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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.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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