David Bowie

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

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.

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.

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

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

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.

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

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

Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as already artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

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

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

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.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

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.

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

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

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.