Once avant-garde artists receive official recognition, they start a double life. In one, they inspire younger artists to do more. In the other, they inspire a mass of imitators who make the work respectable and exclusionary. The artists and their art become intellectual brand names.
Margo Jefferson
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Friedrich Schiller
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky
I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?
I think all parents have a double life.
Dara Horn
It's nice not to have to live a double life.
Lance Bass
'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
Valeria Golino
It's a terrible way to live, to be closeted, to always be worried about being found out. To live this double life is really trying.
My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.
I don't believe in creating exclusionary art.
Joss Whedon
Am I going to go to Heaven or Hell when I die? No. Is there going to be a second coming, and people are going to be stricken down? I find all that exclusionary.
One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'
The avant garde is so narcissistic.
Michael Graves
The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
John Cale
Product design is fed by the avant-garde.
Cornelia Parker
Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
Ferran Adria
In London, I did feel a pressure to be more avant-garde than I wanted.
I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.
The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
John Cale
Product design is fed by the avant-garde.
Cornelia Parker
I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
Matthew Shipp
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy.
Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Anything is respectable in its own realm.
Chance The Rapper
My work is not great, but it's respectable.
Maurice Sendak
I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
The goal is to do things that are exciting and respectable.
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
Official truths are often powerful illusions.
John Pilger
I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party.
America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.
It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.
I inspire myself.
Tommy Wiseau
I want to inspire, and be inspired.
Sam Mendes
I always say, 'Don't retire - inspire.'
Mickey Rooney
Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.
Martin Landau
My company motto is 'Inspire the world to try.'
Through music, I think we can inspire each other.
Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
Name recognition takes time.
Carlos Beruff
I realize I lack popular recognition.
Michel Temer
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
Friedrich Engels
In Lynyrd Skynyrd, we always got our recognition.
Gary Rossington
Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.
Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get.
So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.
Genres are just names.
Jimmy Iovine
I am terrible with people's names.
Rob Lowe
I'm, like, really bad at remembering names.
Dasha Zhukova
People's fates are simplified by their names.
Elias Canetti
There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
I love double cheeseburgers.
Alyssa Sutherland
You dirty, double-crossing rat.
James Cagney
I'm kind of a double middle child.
Alice Ripley
All standards are double standards.
Tucker Carlson
I think all parents have a double life.
Fame is very much a double-edged sword.
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
I'm not a mass-appeal artist.
Amos Lee
I pack on mass quickly when I lift.
Zach McGowan
I'm not really a mass market writer.
Alan Furst
Usenet is the last uncensored mass medium.
Steve Crocker
I'd like a balance of class and mass films.
'Black Mass' was a really great experience.
Behind mass immigration, there is terrorism.
I'm an intellectual.
Alexei Sayle
I'm a fake intellectual.
Adam Brody
I like intellectual journeys.
Christopher Meloni
I'm not an intellectual composer.
Les Baxter
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
I'm not like a high intellectual.
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
Type is your brand.
Bruno Maag
I'm such a brand nerd.
Bozoma Saint John
J.Crew's a great brand.
Chandler Parsons
Channel brand is so key.
Bonnie Hammer
To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.
We feel a brand should be free.
I take my brand very seriously.
All artists are crazy.
Kapil Dev
I grew up with artists.
Jason Momoa
All artists have insecurity.
Daryl Hall
Artists don't think archivally.
Eva Hesse
Artists are like everybody else.
Artists are great. They jump in.
I come from a family of artists.
Gentlemen, start your egos.
Billy Crystal
Always be prepared to start.
Joe Montana
Acting is very start and stop.
Estelle Parsons
Don't follow trends, start trends.
Frank Capra
I start a picture and I finish it.
It's hard to start from the bottom.
Virginia is a good start for Italy.
Art matters.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
Art is truth.
Warren Beatty
Make good art.
Neil Gaiman
Art is forever.
Thomas Kinkade
Art is feminine.
Artifice is art.
Art is activism.
Make good art.
Neil Gaiman
I make no apologies.
Cathy Freeman
I don't make any rules.
Tiger Woods
I don't make any money.
Bill Wyman
I make my home in Tulsa.
I'd make a bad preacher.
I like heels and make-up.
Hear the other side.
Saint Augustine
Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre
We all need each other.
Leo Buscaglia
Love each other or die.
Mitch Albom
Wrong is for other people.
We are each other's destiny.
Women tear each other apart.
I work out.
Christina Ricci
Placebos work.
Richard Dawkins
I love to work.
Lil Wayne
I like to work.
Gary Coleman
I love to work.
I love to work.
I love to work.
No one is India.
E. M. Forster
And one more thing.
Steve Jobs
No one eats pretty.
Lauren Conrad
No one can stop me.
Justin Bieber
I'm a one-man idiot.
I have no one style.
There is only one me.
I love life.
Sukarno
Life's messy.
Heather Bresch
I resist life.
Jeff Bridges
Chess is life.
Bobby Fischer
Life is scary.
Life's a hobby.
I love my life.