I do not like to be unkind.
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.
I think I am basically a happy person.
You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
I’d never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn’t meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.
Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
The universe, at any given point, in any given time, is expanding indefinitely in all directions. So trust me when I say, you are the center of mine.’
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.
You can do anything, but not everything.
Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t.
We teach people how to treat us.
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.
Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.
