David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

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• But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Power

• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Unnecessary

• The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Past

• Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Desire
  • Problems

• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Me
  • Start

• Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
  • Art
  • Culture

• I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

  

  Carl Andre
  • World
  • Art
  • Desire

• You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • People
  • Art
  • You

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Man

• Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Work
  • Art
  • Canvas

• There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Literature

• I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Work
  • Art
  • Guilty

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Tennis

• I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Art
  • Experience

• What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

  

  Ali Smith
  • Art

• I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain. I've watched 'Top Chef' and watched interviews with chefs on 'Charlie Rose'... I thought they're really intriguing characters, and they really encapsulate that tension between vision and commerce, art and commerce.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • World
  • Art
  • Vision

• We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• We exploded after a while and made a lot of horrendously stupid mistakes.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Stupid
  • Mistakes
  • Exploded

• I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

  

  David Bowie
  • Art
  • Entertainment
  • Caught