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.
Quotes to Explore
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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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.
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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.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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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.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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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.
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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.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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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.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!
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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.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
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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.
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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
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Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
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I am, by nature, an optimist.
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When things don't go your way, you've got to keep trying to do the right things.
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I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.
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I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.
