There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.
If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards.
I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.
My music is not worth $2.5bn. And also, I'm not rich.
Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans.
That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
The best art is either political or revolutionary....Those things that are powerfully revolutionary are not always successful in the market place.
I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
No matter how lofty a film is, it becomes a product after entering the market. It has a price. I think no matter what your purpose of shooting it, it has to have artistic value and then sell. But you can't make money if it doesn't have artistic value.
I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.
In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.
If there is one thing that is foreign to me it is shopping for pleasure. On the other hand, I believe that it is right to honor all those who create beautiful things and give satisfaction to those who see me wearing them.
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
All art is quite useless.
Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
