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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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Peace Activist
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City of Tokyo
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I feel sad that he's just a voice now.
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I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do.
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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.
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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.
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We’ve been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.
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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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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.
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What is beauty? It's what you love.
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