creative purity Quotes

Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!

I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's not paycheck at the end; it's more of a "whatever is left over" kind of situation. Also, it keeps me from thinking about my creativity as a business, which it is not. It should remain pure; that's one of the reasons I made music in the first place.

I'm committed to the purity of my art form.

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.

What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

You look at the instrumentation, and you can't really argue that we set out with commercial aspirations. Banjos and things like that are not part of some formula for global success. But it felt right, and I think there's some value to purity of intention.