David Bowie

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

I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

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

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.

Mother’s interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

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

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

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.

People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person.

We’re here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference on this planet. That’s what art forms are about.

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is.

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.

Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.

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.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.