Joseph Brodsky Quotes
One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron's view of the artist as a paid employee.
Joseph Brodsky
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All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.
R. Kelly
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Camille Paglia
Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
Natalie Massenet
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
Rachel Kushner
The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
Harold H. Greene
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Daniel Bell
I'm very interested in Comedia dell'Arte.
Alan Tudyk
In Christ, God is supreme, but not in the old discredited paradigm of supremacy: God is the supreme healer, the supreme friend, the supreme lover, the supreme life-giver who self-empties in gracious love for all. The king of kings and lord of lords is the servant of all and the friend of sinners. The so-called weakness and foolishness of God are greater than the so-called power and wisdom of human regimes.
Brian D. McLaren
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Headlines are icons, not literature. (p. 5)
Marshall McLuhan
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.
Ernest Hemingway
One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron's view of the artist as a paid employee.
Joseph Brodsky