David Bowie

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.

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.

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

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

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

In the field of art, to be able to have lunch with Kirk Varnedoe is thrilling. I met him at Si and Victoria Newhouse’s dinner one night. Barnett Newman’s widow was there. That’s the part of me that’s a fan. Like when I was a kid and went to the Brooklyn Paramount. Well, my interest has expanded, and it’s not just rock-and-roll.

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.

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

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

Nothing will stop you from being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

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

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

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

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.

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

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

The essence of all Art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.