Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.
My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.
Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.
I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.
A product is not a product unless it sells. Otherwise it is merely a museum piece.
Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.
I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.
The problem in America as far as actors are concerned - and it's probably true in other fields, as well - is that they don't value people who are older or talented. I don't think ability means anything. How much money you have or how much money you can make for them are the only things they seem to care about or understand.
Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that people will pay money for my goods and services shows that my work is useful.
But the drawings are not created only to be sold.
Companies that actually survive and flourish are going to change their business model from production to aggregating the networks and the network services and solutions. If you're a construction company or an IT company or a logistics company or an information data operation, to the extent that you can find ways to help build the commons, you can get some commercial value in that.
I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.
Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he's very valuable.
The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the time. It's an extraordinary achievement of mankind, but it wasn't sustainable.
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.
People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.
If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.
Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.
Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?
There's a whole thing now in the entertainment industry that's like, 'You need to write for yourself. Those are the people that are really valuable.' And it's just like, 'I don't want to! I just want to act!'
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.
Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.
