No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.
I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.
I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.