David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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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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All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.
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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
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I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
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A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
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Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.
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When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.
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A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.
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I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.
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But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.
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One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.
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About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.
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Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.
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We took a very interesting journey from being really extreme art house filmmakers. But we find that working in commercial filmmaking and creating a brand on that high level affords us a lot of interesting opportunities.
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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Art is the only thing that can save me from my opinions about the world. I tend to get very worked up about what I see going on, and I feel, you know, impotent to make the kind of changes and the kind of difference that I would like to make.
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Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.
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Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure.
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Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
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If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.
