Commercialism Quotes

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor."

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.

The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.

Money and art are far apart.

Only sick music makes money today.

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments.