I respect Lady Gaga very much.
Art is like breathing for me. If I don’t do it, I start to choke.
We don’t live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven’t changed much.
When people don’t understand my work, I don’t feel like explaining.
In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
When you go through a negative situation, don’t think about it. Make it positive.
I trust myself. You need that to survive.
Every drop in the ocean counts.
Life with another person is always difficult.
My life was pretty rough.
Power is power. It’s energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.
The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.
When I’m putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it’s helping me, my brain, you know, because it’s always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It’s great. My brain is very happy about it.
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
True artists are prophets. I don’t want to be that prophetic in that sense because it’s so lonely.
Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.
Even my mother told me: ‘You are a handsome woman, but you’re not pretty. Pretty girls don’t have those big bones.’
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
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.
I’m just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don’t know what a normal woman is, but I’m a woman and I’m Yoko and I’ve never changed that.
Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it’s all right. We’re scared that if the truth comes out that it’s not all right. It’s the other way around.
After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.
Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body’s cells have been replaced, you’re meant to experience that seven-year itch.
You can’t always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
People don’t remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I’ve got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
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.
Everybody’s an artist. Everybody’s God. It’s just that they’re inhibited.
The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
I’m not going to doubt my life.
Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.
Music is like my security blanket.
I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.
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