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

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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

• 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.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Art
  • Me
  • Best

• 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

• 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.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Creative

• 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

• I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Fall

• Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • World
  • Men
  • Gratitude

• The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.

  

  Arne Glimcher
  • Society
  • Style
  • Painting

• By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

  

  Kenzaburo Oe
  • Night
  • Reading
  • Mountain

• 'I don't really know what happened. I just fell out of the nest.' But the second Soren said those words he felt a weird queasiness. He almost knew. He just couldn't quite remember, but he almost knew how it had happened, and he felt a mixture of dread and shame creep through him. He felt something terrible deep in his gizzard.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Remember
  • Words
  • Deep

• 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