David Bowie

Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

We’ll buy some drugs and watch a band and jump in a river holding hands.

I’m terribly intuitive-I always thought I was intellectual about what I do, but I’ve come to the realization that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

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.

Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

This type of soul, this type of art takes a while to cook. It’s like when my wife cooks for me and I always ask for greens. She never wants to cook the greens because they take three hours to cook.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Life is tough and if you’re creative, it’s tougher.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

I’m terribly intuitive-I always thought I was intellectual about what I do, but I’ve come to the realization that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I’ve always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists.

There is nothing new… everything has roots in the past.

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.

I wouldn’t give five cents for all the art in the world.

If you believe in your art and you love what you do, that energy will go out and people will respond.

Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two or at times, submerged in either.