David Bowie

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

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

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

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

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.

The arts are at the center of a nation’s purpose and a test of civilization.

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

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

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

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

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Bad artists imitate, great artists steal.

The essence of all Art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

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

People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person.

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.

Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of…recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

I don’t want to put too many boxes on it because the work speaks louder than words.