Accepted Quote by Jack Kirby

The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They…

— Jack Kirby

“The truth is most Artist when they sign contracts. They don’t care what it says or about terms and conditions. All they want is…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.

— Jimmy Iovine

There are so few barriers to working with artists because the contract is brief and straightforward, it allows us to just move instantly.

— Doug Walters

“Selling out had never been a problem before because no one had wanted to buy. Why are we kneecapping ourselves with artistic principles when…

— Matthew De Abaitua

“A writer who makes serious money is never taken seriously. Writers and artists are expected to suffer poverty and privation for their art; it’s…

— Jessica Zafra

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

— Scott Pelley

Why is the industry engineered to keep the artists in debt?

— Jadakiss

“For publishers are not just employers and financial risk-takers: they are also cultural mediators and arbitrators of quality and taste.”

— John B. Thompson

There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or…

— Ian Mcewan

We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist…

— Tony Bennett

Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.

— Sara Genn