Truth exists in art.
Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of…recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.
It’s like telling Michelangelo: ‘I know you painted this dope angel, that was really good, but Michelangelo, I don’t think you can paint a cow.’
Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else’s personality, that is not art.
It is unquestionably true that the need for art is not created by economic conditions. But neither is the need for food created by economics. On the contrary, the need for food and warmth creates economics.
What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What’s left of the man when the work’s done but a shambles of apology.
One of the things about creativity is you can be in denial about these things. When I found out I had cancer, there were four hours in which I was pounding my head on the marble kitchen top saying, “I can’t believe it, I can’t believe it.” But then I felt as if this little army in uniform was flooding me. They had come to help me fight it. I felt really strong about it after that. It was one of the strongest periods of my life.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
Nothing will stop you from being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.
To this day I’m really not sure if I was playing Ziggy [Stardust] or if Ziggy was exaggerated aspects of my own personality. A fair amount of psychological baggage was undoubtedly coming out through the character. Because I felt awkward and nervous and inadequate with myself, it felt easier to be somebody else.
I believe that all creative people have more than one passion, more than one creative talent.
There is only 1 difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
The essence of all Art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
