Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.
I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either.
No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.
I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.
It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.
The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.