The Color of Money

I don't insist that every creative person prove his or her commitment to art for art's sake by starving penniless in a garret, even if that seems ever more likely to be my own fate. I would never say someone is a sellout because he or she wrote a book with a good story in it, or painted a painting of an attractive scene.

Not every attempt to please an audience is a case of shameless pandering, in other words. But then there's this. I mean, sheesh.