David Bowie

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

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.

Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.

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

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.

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.

Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two or at times, submerged in either.

There is no art without intention.

Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.

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

There’s no collection that has a better representation of post-war American art than David Geffen’s.

Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.

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.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

All art inspires me. Life inspires me. The art of life, thus my own art.

We’re here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference on this planet. That’s what art forms are about.

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.

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.

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

An artist can only be evaluated after he’s dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.