Top 100 Art Money Quotes
#1. When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.
Iggy Pop
#2. Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.
Candace Bushnell
#4. New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject
art, money, sex, food, health.
Mason Cooley
#5. I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.
David Gilmour
#6. One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.
Steve Kanaly
#7. I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director needs a crew - the writer, the producer, etcetera - and to have that, he needs money.
Roger Corman
#8. People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk about money.
Christopher Bram
#9. Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe,
Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
I know thy parentage is base and low:
Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.
George Herbert
#10. The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
Waylon Jennings
#11. Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.
Eli Broad
#12. The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
Waldemar Januszczak
#13. He printed business cards celebrating his shift. They read, 'Ars gratia pecuniae.' Translated, it meant, 'Art for money's sake.
Kliph Nesteroff
#14. I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
Malcolm Wilson
#15. My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy.
Nelly
#16. I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive ... is money.
Asher Brown Durand
#17. Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.
P.T. Barnum
#18. If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.
William Penn
#19. It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.
Bryan Brown
#20. When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.
John Logan
#21. Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted ... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
M. Night Shyamalan
#22. You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
Seth Godin
#23. It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
W. H. Auden
#24. My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.
John Allison
#25. If we fight for money, I'll stop hitting you when you ask me to. If we fight for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it.
Rickson Gracie
#26. Fashion is not art. Fashion isnt even culture. Fashion is advertising, and advertising is money. And for every dollar you earn, someone has to pay.
Gia Carangi
#27. Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can ... . The art world is high school with money.
Jerry Saltz
#28. Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.
Joe Bradley
#29. The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
Henry Taylor
#30. For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no money it's easy to just drink your way through it and make great art. But if you're making lots of money it can be very problematic.
Damien Hirst
#31. Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.
William Blake
#32. If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other parts of the 'consciousness industry,' it is minuscule. But if you look at what happens in this small sector, how it rubs off on the rest of it, it is astonishing.
Hans Haacke
#33. The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life ... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.
Christina Stead
#34. The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting goes for ten grand or a hundred grand, it doesn't make painting any easier. And it doesn't make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand.
Joe Bradley
#35. I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.
Steve Martin
#36. In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every school for the first time. Our generation played a crucial role. We were the stepping stones towards today's galleries.
Theresa Sjoquist
#37. The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
Jerry Saltz
#38. If I rewind back to that period, I was 8 in 1977 when 'Star Wars' was in theaters. I saved up money, or my parents got me the 'Art of Star Wars' book.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#39. When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money
Oscar Wilde
#40. Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for 'create art' and see if it fits).
Richie Norton
#41. I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.
Ice-T
#42. Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.
Goh Chok Tong
#43. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.
Ben Gazzara
#44. The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved. That would lead to total chaos. The word itself (contribution) is to give to a common purpose.
Ed Benguiat
#45. Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.
John Updike
#46. Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.
Barbara Kruger
#47. People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
Kurt Vonnegut
#48. I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#49. High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
Finley Peter Dunne
#50. But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?
Francis Ford Coppola
#51. And I was scrambling around trying to make money and to study and master (and fail at mastering) the art of being an adult.
Miriam Toews
#53. I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.
Jerry Saltz
#54. Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
Dave Winer
#55. I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get the money then you didn't have anything. If I did the work I was proud of and I didn't get the money, at least I'd have the work.
Neil Gaiman
#56. I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
Jeff Koons
#57. Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.
Jerry Saltz
#58. I understand when there's no money for the arts in the government, but it should maybe pressure private companies to support more filmmakers. These exhibition and distribution companies are huge, and there might be incentives for them to invest more in Mexican cinema.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#59. Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
Robert Henri
#60. If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?
Sara Sheridan
#61. It's wonderful to make a lot of money, to be able to take care of my family, to have the facilities I have and really support the people the studio's involved with. But at the end of the day I'm quite simple as an artist-it's really about the power of art.
Jeff Koons
#62. We always wish for money, we always wish for fame. We think we have the answers, some things ain't never gonna change.
John Waite
#63. Better yet - I'll buy him a dildo with his own money, send it to him, and tell him to go fuck himself
from The Art of Submission by Ella Dominguez
Ella Dominguez
#64. Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.
Alexander Stoddart
#65. There has always been a correlation between money and art.
Simon De Pury
#66. A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.
Ernst Junger
#67. Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!
Barbara Kruger
#68. Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
Billy Joel
#69. Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
William Blake
#70. Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.
Jerry Saltz
#71. As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
Neil Jackson
#72. Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It's also the root of a lot of bad art.
Michael Gungor
#73. Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.
Joe Murray
#74. Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
Harold Prince
#75. The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays.
Franco Moschino
#76. I swear ... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
Hippocrates
#77. Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
Adam Davidson
#78. It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous and make a lot of money. They might be in for a bad turn.
Wade Guyton
#79. Birds sing, wolves howl, crickets chirp. But why? Money? Fame? Record contracts? Endorsements? What's it all for? They do it because they're alive. They do it because life is about making things.
Danny Gregory
#80. I don't see what else you can spend your money on ... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.
Damien Hirst
#81. I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
Laurie Anderson
#82. You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
Xavier Niel
#83. When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
Oscar Wilde
#84. As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#85. In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.
Glen Hansard
#86. I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke.
Joni Mitchell
#87. Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.
Andy Warhol
#88. Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.
Michael Steinhardt
#89. There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.
Peter Cundill
#90. There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
Yoko Ono
#91. I have to go around and ask people for money, of course, quite a lot. And it's quite an art to ask people for money. But I think that I have to ask them for money for the things that I'm interested in, and of course, money breeds money.
Brooke Astor
#92. I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.
Tina Weymouth
#93. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire
#94. When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.
Sissy Spacek
#95. The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect
this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
Twyla Tharp
#96. The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
Chuck Palahniuk
#97. Because many of the films I've made have had an intellectualedge, it's harder for me to lie. It's harder for me to go to peoplewith money and say I don't care about art, all I care about iscommerce; all I really want to do is make money.
Paul Schrader
#98. Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!
Thomas Hoving
#99. In a way it wasn't so different from art. It bridged the void between minds, let us feel something together, ten tokens per minute. Sometimes I thought, Money isn't filthy or cold. It's the only way we can be human with each other anymore.
Leah Raeder
#100. We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we're supposed to focus on the art.
Cassandra Clare
