David Bowie

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else’s personality, that is not art.

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.

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

If you believe in your art and you love what you do, that energy will go out and people will respond.

One of the things about creativity is you can be in denial about these things. When I found out I had cancer, there were four hours in which I was pounding my head on the marble kitchen top saying, “I can’t believe it, I can’t believe it.” But then I felt as if this little army in uniform was flooding me. They had come to help me fight it. I felt really strong about it after that. It was one of the strongest periods of my life.

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

Truth exists in art.

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

Life is tough and if you’re creative, it’s tougher.

I’ve always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists.

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