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

David Bowie

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.
DAVID BOWIE

Age Live Man Mortal Myself Potential
I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don’t like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don’t wanna hear happy albums… and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.
DAVID BOWIE

Album Gravity Happiness Hate Isolation Lonely Music Myself Sad
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
DAVID BOWIE

Feeling God Man Mindset Myself Presence State World
The end comes when the infinites arrive.
DAVID BOWIE

Arrival End Infinity
It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I’m home.
DAVID BOWIE

Alive Artist Home Myself Sad See
I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
DAVID BOWIE

Artist Believe Integrity Loyalty Myself People Reality Style Time
It’s a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there’s a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that’s how some of us conduct our lives.
DAVID BOWIE

Build Compulsion Life Live Notice Ourselves Pattern
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
DAVID BOWIE

Average Fame Interest Man
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
DAVID BOWIE

Choice Civilization Creation Style Yourself
Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.
DAVID BOWIE

Change Myself Time Trace
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 Author Necessary Reading Stability Voice
I’m not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.
DAVID BOWIE

Change Lying Mindset Myself
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.
DAVID BOWIE

Easy heavy Myself Writing
Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time.
DAVID BOWIE

Advice Save Talk Time Yourself
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
DAVID BOWIE

Body Challenge Death Disturb Life Yourself
I’m drawn between the light and dark.
DAVID BOWIE

Darkness Light Myself

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