“It was most peculiar. Out of nowhere he suddenly said religion is over, and it lies in the arts. That the information, the spiritual life, will be in the vessel of the visual and the musical arts.”
“Never play to the gallery. I think. But you never learn that until much later on I think. But never work for other people at what you do. Always remember that the reason that you initially started working was that there was something inside yourself that you felt that if you could manifest it in some way you would understand more about yourself, and how you coexist with the rest of society.”
“I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations. I think they produce, they generally produce, their worst work when they do that.”
“Religion is for people who fear Hell. Spirituality is for people who have been there.”
— David Bowie (1947–2016), “The Chameleon of Rock.”
“Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth, and when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”
