There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don’t go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

I made all my generals out of mud.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

I have such respect for ‚Democracy Now!‘

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

We are all the President’s men.

All good art is an indiscretion.

The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I’d have a hairy conniption. I’d just go crazy.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Even though I’m known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

Watergate had become the center of the media’s universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

I know that the arts are important. I’m not denying that, but I can’t associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

For the general public or psychos on Facebook, for everyone who’s made one negative comment about me, I’ve probably gotten 250-300 positive comments.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

The press is the enemy.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

By the mid-’60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.