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“We intuitively reject art when the cost to make it is less than the cost to buy it.” — Elizabeth Hyde Stevens Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“You said how strange it was that people were prepared to buy expensive material objects, but when it came to making an investment in… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
“If [modern artists] hadn’t lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Consumers are not loyal to cheap commodities. They crave the unique, the remarkable, and the human.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Today, no one is scandalized; society has found ways to nullify the provocative potential of a work of art, adopting before it an attitude… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“I can't remember the name of the piece, or the artist. Maybe it wasn't even an artwork. Why must I automatically assume that every… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“The people with money were meddling in mechanical and design affairs. They were interjecting their mediocre ideas into the process and polluting it.” — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“As creators and consumers they fill the field of pop culture today, which is an economic enterprise and only by accident occasionally has something… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“... when people are getting poorer, and children are growing more hungry and sick all around you, it is simply not enough for an… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created… — Steve Martin Copy Share
“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions. If something engaged him- the user interface for the original Macintosh, the design of the iPod and iPhone, getting music companies into the iTunes Store-he was relentless. But if he did not want to deal with… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
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