David Bowie

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

One of the things about creativity is you can be in denial about these things. When I found out I had cancer, there were four hours in which I was pounding my head on the marble kitchen top saying, “I can’t believe it, I can’t believe it.” But then I felt as if this little army in uniform was flooding me. They had come to help me fight it. I felt really strong about it after that. It was one of the strongest periods of my life.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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