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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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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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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For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
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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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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
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Champagne is the only wine that enhances a woman's beauty.
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You know you're on the Senior Tour when your back goes out more than you do.
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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.
