Truth exists in art.
Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.
Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.
Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.
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.
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.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
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.
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.
There is no art without intention.
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.
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.
I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it’s in them in the first place.
Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else’s personality, that is not art.
