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.

David Bowie

• Art
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• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Light

• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• 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.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Beauty

• When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

  

  Saadi
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Empty

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

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• 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.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Live
  • Art
  • Job

• My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Art
  • Father

• I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Want
  • Myself

• Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Creativity

• A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perception

• Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Good
  • Art

• When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Art
  • Choices

• 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.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Bruno Bauer
  • God
  • Important
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Jeffrey Deitch
  • World
  • Art

• Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Art
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• 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.

  

  Max Walker
  • World
  • Art
  • Sports

• 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.

  

  Corita Kent
  • Art
  • Home

• As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

  

  Arne Glimcher
  • World
  • Art
  • America

• It's assumed that if you're a woman, you want to be the prettiest version of yourself. It always put me in a bad mood. It was like, "OK, I'm successful. I'm supposed to be happy. Well, why aren't I happy?" Part of the problem was that my looked-at-ness had become a priority over my art making. Over and over again it was like, "I don't have time for this. I want to work." I love writing. I don't love somebody putting false eyelashes on me.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Successful

• In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

  

  John McTiernan

• Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Friends
  • Health
  • Cigarette

• 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.

  

  David Bowie
  • Art
  • Empty
  • Crooked