Creative Works Quotes

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

Up until the final decade of the nineteenth century, the United States and the United Kingdom did not recognize copyright in each other's creative works.

Songs are like children. They are all special to me - you can't just pick a favorite. Of course, 'Lucky Man' was a special tune with a wonderful story behind it. They have all done different things.

All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them to an extent.

Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

For the general good of the world [written work] should be understood as … belonging to the publick.

Independent films are really the best ones out there. They're the most original stories, and they're very good.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

Unfortunately you can't copyright a title... bummer.

'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.

I had left 'Ragtime' - and 'Ragtime' was a completely different beast, no pun intended, than 'The Lion King'.

'Tragedy' and 'Loud City Song' are both inspired by stories from the past.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

I love all my albums... I use the metaphor they're like my children: some do better than others, but you love them all equally.

If the contest for an international copyright is to be managed like the annual pig-iron conflict, or the wool fight, ending in a compromise by which every interest gets a certain amount of protection at the expense of the public, it will certainly be of little service either to England, America, or humanity at large. What is needed is a legal protection for property in ideas; in other words, an authors' copyright.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

My works tends to be erotic.

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is both, at the same time.