In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.
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Related Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attentio... TEJU COLE I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of read... MARGE SIMON Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified ... RACHEL CUSK I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-a... DANA SPIOTTA I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to... TRENT REZNOR I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world wh... MAYA ANGELOU Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It... ANNE ROIPHE If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody wi... NATHAN SAWAYA Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playi... SHEA HEMBREY I'm generally not a fan of didactic art because it papers over many of the hard experiences abou... PHIL KLAY Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's... MARK MORRIS Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend ... ISRAEL HOROVITZ Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at l... BRUCE GLOVER I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'... MAYA ANGELOU We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it... BILLY AL BENGSTON There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in an... DAN SIMMONS I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's a... DONALD JUDD I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I ha... ERIK HASSLE For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films ar... PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reck... KIP MOORE I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools a... CHRISETTE MICHELE I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And... HARVEY PEKAR Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching ... FRANK OCEAN Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the wo... ANNE HATHAWAY Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it'... JOE ROGAN Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writer... PADDY CHAYEFSKY As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.' BARRY MCGEE Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of Fr... JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart fr... NORMAN GRANZ In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no ot... LARRY MULLEN, JR. My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I&... K'NAAN I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think... ROY LICHTENSTEIN I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it t... ROY LICHTENSTEIN Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, bu... SAVION GLOVER It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think a... FAYE DUNAWAY I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or ... IMOGEN HEAP Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fin... SAMUEL BARNETT I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be so... HUSSEIN CHALAYAN Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more cri... HUNTER HAYES Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT I'm not saying everybody has a social responsibility of what art they create, but art should be ... MARY LAMBERT The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone sayi... BEN SCHOTT People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find th... MEGAN FOX In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I ... JOAKIM NOAH If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art... JOHN PEEL I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off ... DAVID RAMSEY I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which i... ALAIN DE BOTTON I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls.... ALICE MUNRO Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play ... BENNY GREEN Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. OSCAR WILDE The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it differe... LESLIE FIEDLER I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, th... STEVE MARTIN Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothin... PHYLICIA RASHAD I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of... TONY KUSHNER I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I a... RAF SIMONS I know it's become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there's pl... EDGAR WRIGHT In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say... AARON SISKIND Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete... POPE BENEDICT XVI The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is... CHARLTON HESTON I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter... ELIZABETH MCGOVERN It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form o... NICK CANNON I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or po... JAZMINE SULLIVAN If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock an... KEITH RICHARDS I'm awake as soon as the sun crests the eastern hills. I guess I'm motivated because I love ... LINDA LAEL MILLER In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all a... DAMIEN CHAZELLE For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even witho... WASHED OUT Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience... CONOR OBERST Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no j... ART BLAKEY Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier t... ROXANE GAY It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other fo... CHRIS MILK It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it... FERDINAND MOUNT I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art ... KIM GORDON It's not like we grew up hanging around in church every day. We'll always stick to what we f... JOSH DUN I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any... RICK JAMES I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything,... VINCE CLARKE I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to m... GALLAGHER There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is... MAO ZEDONG I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm m... SIA I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for c... BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as ... EMILY ROBISON In every role that I do - whether I'm a teacher, actor or mentor - I do it with total dedication... ANUPAM KHER Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. W... EVAN HUNTER If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? AI WEIWEI My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I l... YELAWOLF Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the rich... JERRY SALTZ The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I ju... BILL BURR I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't c... TOM WATSON The thing that I probably enjoy the most and also am the best at in whatever art form I'm workin... GREG BERLANTI I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form. ADAM LEVINE I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life... AUSTIN NICHOLS I take it a little bit hard on myself because I'm comparing myself a lot, and that's the kin... NASTIA LIUKIN If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of pr... DAVID NICHOLLS For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in cont... KELIS People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll ju... AI WEIWEI To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometim... MARY STEENBURGEN I'm a trained engineer, so I'm conditioned to come up with a right answer to a difficult que... SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do ... OSCAR WILDE
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ALBERTO RAMOS I would encourage you all to focus on what is positive in terms of what is going on positively in th... ALBERTO GONZALES Obviously we would have preferred the escape not to have occurred, ALBERTO GONZALES Don't Get Caught, Ya Big Dummies! ALBERTO GONZALES I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted, ... We have zero tolerance for corporate... ALBERTO GONZALES If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to... ALBERTO GIACOMETTI If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to... ALBERTO GIACOMETTI I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my ... ALBERTO GIACOMETTI I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself. ALBERTO GIACOMETTI I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to d... ALBERTO GIACOMETTI At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures... ALBERTO GIACOMETTI Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want somethi... ALBERTO GIACOMETTI All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is importan... ALBERTO GIACOMETTI All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than m... ALBERTO GIACOMETTI I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to underst... ALBERTO GIACOMETTI I want to go back (to Peru)someday, but I don't know when, ALBERTO FUJIMORI without dialogue, there will never be a solution. ALBERTO FUJIMORI We have declared a total freeze on military movement, ALBERTO FUJIMORI And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also... ALBERTO FUJIMORI The denunciations about $18 million (being moved) to a bank account in Singapore during my trip are ... ALBERTO FUJIMORI In Latin America we are now fully aware that integration is an integral tool, ... should not lead to... ALBERTO FUJIMORI I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States, ... I do not ... ALBERTO FUJIMORI strengthening of democratic institutions ... and the creation of jobs and prosperity. ALBERTO FUJIMORI You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument, ALBERTO FUJIMORI The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable, ALBERTO FUJIMORI Second place, three champions, I think that's a heck of an accomplishment. We're heading in the righ... ALBERTO FERNANDEZ Our desire is to generate the greatest debate possible with regard to this situation, so that all th... ALBERTO FERNANDEZ For now, this is the only option we have in sight. ALBERTO FERNANDEZ Uruguay must understand that for Argentina this is a serious issue because of the risk of contaminat... ALBERTO FERNANDEZ They're making progress at Abbey and Latin America was strong, helped by a currency impact. The reac... ALBERTO ESPELOSIN Stocks have had a fantastic rally and this market is screaming for a correction. The excuse may come... ALBERTO ESPELOSIN Finally a large phone company posts earnings that don't disappoint. These are very solid numbers. ALBERTO ESPELOSIN European stocks have had a very good run and there is no reason why the trend should stop. We may se... ALBERTO ESPELOSIN The price being offered is more than reasonable. ALBERTO ESPELOSIN We do know it is measured in the 100 of millions of dollars as the end price tag for the end total f... ALBERTO BIANCHETTI Also, the cost of natural gas eased and continues to ease. ALBERTO BIANCHETTI We're making good progress. Most of the work will be done by Tuesday, but we will be working on Wedn... ALBERTO BIANCHETTI We had more than adequate staff to respond to the storm. We're doing a lot of work that is not visib... ALBERTO BIANCHETTI