15 Quotes by David Bowie about art

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    It behoves the art establishment to elevate them to a higher plateau as fast as possible, to make them unavailable, aesthetically, to a low art market...[The art establishment] extends its parameters to capture the new thing and elevate it from low art to high art—successfully enough to increase the commerce proposition that goes along with it—and to consign the idea of art to a particular world.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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    I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I'd be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

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    I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

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