Truth exists in art.
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.
Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else’s personality, that is not art.
Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.
An artist can only be evaluated after he’s dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
The essence of all Art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two or at times, submerged in either.
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
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.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
