Steve Wozniak Quotes

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.

I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

A great painting is a great painting.

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and art is supposed to last.

I don't think you're selling out by allowing the masses to love your art. The only curse is that, when you get so big, sometimes people forget to look at the music.

I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.

Good music will always be recognized in the end.

I want the audience to watch my films, and that is what I value more than any awards.

For a filmmaker, whether the film is liked, understood or appreciated counts as much as the moolah.

If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop.

Art is a gift and if nobody hears it, that doesn't make it any less of a gift.

The ones that sell the most aren't the ones that are remembered.