Artistic Ownership Quotes

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.

I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.

Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

I'm not a businesswoman... I never looked after my negatives and you need that to prove you took the photographs.

Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

I'm quite a particular singer, and I need to feel like I can bite into the song, in a way, to make it my own. You want the challenge of the songs having some attitude.

Copyright is too valuable to be wholly renounced.

I don't want nobody to ever say, 'I coulda done that beat' or 'I know where you got that from.'

Stand-up is mine. It's a part of me.

It's my music. It's my craft. If you don't like it, then turn it off. Don't listen to it. But a lot of people listen to it... The numbers, they add up.

First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I put down the fact of it. I wanted it to be the same thing he wanted it to be, an open ended invitation to think about authorship, and who owns a created work. So I pair it with my appropriated picture.

Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and produces it and edits it and all that stuff. We stay with the piece all the way through.

We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is - I don't even want to say that it's mine, because it's yours.

When I've acted, and it's not been something I've written or have had at least a hand in writing, I do think there is a controlling side of me that is frustrated by that. And I actually don't think that it's a bad thing, because if I'm going to be in movies, in large part they're going to be movies that I write.

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.

The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not give me the credit I rightfully earned? As for those responsible for this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the Alien father is HR Giger.