David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

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• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Artist
  • Partner
  • Bridge

• I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Work
  • Hands
  • Walk

• Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Artist
  • Rights
  • Manager

• So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Year

• Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.

  

  Fetty Wap
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  • Favorite
  • Gucci

• To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Truth
  • Style
  • Generation

• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Artist
  • Wrong

• I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Country
  • Hands

• I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Up
  • Mind
  • College

• Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Done
  • Style
  • Leave

• A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Style
  • Opinion
  • Camera

• I run away from super-bandage-style Herve Leger dresses. I think it's sexier for a woman to be in something sheer and loose.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Think
  • Style
  • Woman

• My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Hands
  • Fate
  • Allah

• I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Age
  • Artist
  • Young

• In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Hands
  • Feet
  • March

• After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Style
  • Always
  • Never

• If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Artist
  • Voice
  • Impact

• All artists need a room of their own

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Artist
  • Needs
  • Rooms

• Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Opportunity
  • Lying
  • Obstacles

• Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, 'that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.'

  

  John Adams
  • Men
  • America
  • Free

• Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.

  

  Edwina Currie
  • People
  • Money
  • Genuine

• Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more.

  

  Neil Abramson
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Humans

• When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

  

  David Bowie
  • Style
  • Artist
  • Hands