David Bowie

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

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

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

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’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 don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

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

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

There is only 1 difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

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

There’s no collection that has a better representation of post-war American art than David Geffen’s.

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.

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it’s in them in the first place.

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.’

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.

I believe that all creative people have more than one passion, more than one creative talent.

The arts are at the center of a nation’s purpose and a test of civilization.

Playing with freedom can only come after a certain amount of foundational study.

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

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

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.