There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
Annie LennoxTag: music selling-out
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn MonroeTag: hollywood selling-out
Even the financial disclosure statements that political bloggers were required to post hadn't stemmed the suspicion that people's opinions weren't really their own. "Who's paying you?" was a retort that might follow any bout of enthusiasm, along with laughter - who would let themselves be bought?
Jennifer EganTag: opinions suspicion selling-out
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
Tag: science money truth honesty morality lies writing integrity values artists greed scholars academia honour treason gain selling-out falsification veracity
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
Tag: honesty writing integrity on-writing creative-process self-expression expectations selling-out pandering
Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
SenecaTag: money fidelity loyalty selling-out
The saddest thing about selling out is just how cheaply most of us do it for.
James Bernard FrostTag: selling-out
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: honesty writing integrity creative-process self-expression reviewers selling-out pandering
[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: style writing civilization literature creative-process culture craft crudeness craftsmanship selling-out
The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.
Paul MurrayTag: existence youth existentialism maturity compromise selling-out
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