Yoko Ono on color
Yoko Ono101 quotes“It’s a waste of time to think that if you coloured a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.”
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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.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono Oh, another shadow! Do you want to join us?
Yoko OnoYoko Ono Don’t ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you’ve spent a lot of time with it.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music – that makes it exciting.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono I trust myself. You need that to survive.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono At least I had that, one guy understood me.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono What is beauty? It’s what you love.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono Be silent in a group of people See what they reveal to you.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono In other lives, I must have been in every country in which women suffered the insufferable.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono Faces can lie. Backsides can’t.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono Art is a way of survival.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono Smile to the future and it will smile back to you.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are.
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Do what you’re happy with and not what you think whoever else is going to tell you about you ‘acting a color.’ You don’t act at all. You just do what you think is best.
Bhad BhabieBhad Bhabie Shades of black intertwined in my being I try to see in color but darkness is all I’m seeing.
Courtney HillCourtney Hill If truth be known it is not all about rainbows sometimes eyes of melancholic skies still shine they still find light and color despite the sky.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner What I need most of all is color, always, always.
Claude MonetClaude Monet How is it that the colors don’t seem colorful anymore? How is it that the child in me wants to live yet keeps dying more and more?
Anamika GargAnamika Garg If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it’s just stupidness, isn’t it?
Tyson FuryTyson Fury I can’t have brown hair for some reason. I don’t think it goes with my skin tone. The second I see it turn brown in the sun, I dye it black – the blacker the better.
Kylie JennerKylie Jenner He could only give her a world in black and white. And all she wanted was a life of color.
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