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 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
I don't believe in creating exclusionary art.
Joss Whedon
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
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
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
Official truths are often powerful illusions.
John Pilger
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
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
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
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'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'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
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
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
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
Art matters.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
Art is truth.
Warren Beatty
Make good art.
Neil Gaiman
Art is forever.
Thomas Kinkade
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
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
I work out.
Christina Ricci
Placebos work.
Richard Dawkins
I love to work.
Lil Wayne
I like to work.
Gary Coleman
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 love life.
Sukarno
Life's messy.
Heather Bresch
I resist life.
Jeff Bridges
Chess is life.
Bobby Fischer