Sally Rooney Quotes

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

Economics and art are strangers.

We need to create technologies - and a culture of respect, and an updated legal doctrine, too - that allow creative folks to make money from their own efforts.

I think music should be free. I think all communication should be free. I think people should respect artists, and there should be a certain respect for artists who give their music away for free.

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

There are things going on in galleries recently that have shocked me. What I'm going to say is really controversial, but what I find the most provocative is the commerciality of art in general. And the fact that a lot of people have forgotten what the meaning of art is and what the intention behind it is.

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.

In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.

Big Tech's nonchalance about copyright violation tramples over people like my wife and me, who strive to make a living in the great tradition of the creative realm.

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for ten times more than that after you're dead, and that's what you have to protect.

I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.

I think art maybe has just become very consumer-oriented, and maybe it's always been that way because it is a business.

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time.