John Lennon Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

  John Lennon

  Life, Depression, Running

  "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, 2000.

• If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Music

• If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

  John Lennon

  Music, Art, Men

• Art is only a way of expressing pain.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Motivational

  Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.150, Omnibus Press

• Avant-garde is French for bullshit

  John Lennon

  Art, Bullshit, Avant Garde

• The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

  John Lennon

  Art, School, Drug

• I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it . . . and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy.

  John Lennon

  Music, Art, Form

• There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.

  John Lennon

  Art, Believe, Tag

• We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

  John Lennon

  Music, Jesus, Art

  1966 In the Evening Standard.

• Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

  John Lennon

  Art

• Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.

  John Lennon

  Art, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest place on earth. . . I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash.

  John Lennon

  Art, New York, Paris

• I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

  John Lennon

  Music, Art, Resentment

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