RAM maxing out - MBP

My MBP has been running very slowly recently. I've noticed that the RAM is all in almost constant usage.
Do the screen shots from activity monitor and memory clean tell any of you geniuses anything? These were taken with nothing open other than Safari and activity monitor.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Yosemite has totally changed how memory is dealt with on the Mac and Memory Clean is worthless with the new OS. Looking at the Activity Monitor RAM tab shows that memory pressure is rather high, an indication that you either need to run fewer applications at the same time or upgrade your computer. Having run Yosemite on numerous computers (I'm in IT) there is no doubt in my mind that (a) it runs best on a computer with an SSD and (b) it needs a minimum of 8GB
As Csound1 points out, Yosemite will always show it is using nearly all the memory installed on the computer. I'm sitting in front of a 16GB computer and I certainly don't have 16GB worth of applications running (even Safari, as big a hog as it is, has only 2 tabs open) and Activity monitor is showing nearly all the memory is in use. But the memory pressure graph is nearly at the bottom.

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