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1219 Artist Quotes

What is” is more important than ‘what should be.’ Too many people are looking at ‘what is’ from a position of thinking ‘what should be’.

More Should People Think
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Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
Endure Cease Work Lost
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The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

Life Trade Squeeze Pattern
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One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to s

Harmony Strength Force Natural
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Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

Allow Negative Weed Mind
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Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged
Man Defeat Discourage Remember
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It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is ho

Shame Knock Down Reflect
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Art Understand Necessary Love
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God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

Diploma Scar Medal Degree
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.

Thankful Connect Receptive Audience
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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

Reality Thought Dream Own
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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Art Beautiful Body Work
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Reach Goal Believe Plan
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Let go of the things that make you feel dead! Life is worth living!

Worth Dead Feel Living
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Every idea that comes to mind I execute, or I look for outlets to put out ideas.

Idea Come Mind Look
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Lose Dear Permanent You
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Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Love Greatest Life Refreshment
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Love is like a friendship caught on fire: in the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Love Friendship Caught Fire
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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Fire Loving Strong Human
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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

Dare Love Rainbow Gold
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

About Conventional Freeing Ourselves
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

Band Beatles Could Did
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I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

Any Exciting Flow Go
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Life with another person is always difficult.

Always Another Difficult Life
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When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

Bother Me Turned
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

Fans John John Lennon Lennon
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The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

About Any Gallery Go
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I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.

Day Get Hours Just
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
Gamble Honest Marriage
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

Affects Anything Most Really
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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.'0

Always Around Course Know
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Concerts Had Make Make Up
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

Artists Because Lonely Prophetic
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The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

Cynicism Real Soul You
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Art is my life and my life is art.

Art Life My Life
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I'm not going to doubt my life.
Doubt Going Life My Life
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

Artist Everybody God Just
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Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

Change Change The World Each Each One
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

Distance Does Everywhere Exist
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Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

Always Bend Best Events
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Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

Big Energy Get Good
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

Black Colored Happened Might
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

About Affect Anger Angry
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
Good Life Make Only
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

Activist Always Effects Gets
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Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

Japanese Proud Very
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I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

Alive Ambitious Difficult Difficult Thing
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

About Also Become First
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Music is like my security blanket.
Blanket Like Music Security
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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.

Home Instrument Make Only
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