Truth exists in art.
Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.
Playing with freedom can only come after a certain amount of foundational study.
There is nothing new… everything has roots in the past.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
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.
Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.
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.
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
Bad artists imitate, great artists steal.
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.
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.
Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.
There is no art without intention.
An artist can only be evaluated after he’s dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.
If you believe in your art and you love what you do, that energy will go out and people will respond.
