David Bowie Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.

  David Bowie

  Art, Reading, Voice

  "Janelle Monáe: 'I'm a time traveller. I have been to lots of different places'" by Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2013.

• I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

  David Bowie

  Art, Media, Giving

  Song: China Girl, Album: Let's Dance, 1983

• The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.

  David Bowie

  Art, Stuff, Rock N Roll

• I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

  David Bowie

  Art, Way, Painting

• If you come from art, you'll always be art.

  David Bowie

  Art, Ifs

• Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

  David Bowie

  Art, Media, Limos

  Song: Fame D Bowie J Lennon C Alomar

• I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

  David Bowie

  Art, Media, Glimpse

  Song: Changes, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971

• 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, Media, Television

  Song: Afraid, Album: Heathen, 2002

• Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

  David Bowie

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Battle For Britain, Album: Earthling, 1997

• Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

  David Bowie

  Fashion, Art, Squad

  Song: Fashion, 1980

• I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.

  David Bowie

  Art, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the late '70s - there was a lot more guts to art when the Neo-Expressionists were starting up; it was real slapdash; it has real heart to it - but it seems so cold and heartless in America. It's a buyer's market.

  David Bowie

  Art, Real, Grace

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

  David Bowie

  Song, Art, Writing

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.34, Melville House

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