Quotes About Art And Commerce

#1. Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.

Moby

#2. I do believe in art and commerce coming together.

Steve Lillywhite

#3. Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'

Takashi Murakami

#4. I do not accept the art and commerce divide in cinema. I maintain that you either have a good film or a bad film.

Sakti Sengupta

#5. Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

Nicholas Meyer

#6. I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.

Ian MacKaye

#7. His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.

William Gibson

#8. Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of repose, must seek employment for their restless energies in fields of peaceful enterprise.

Francis Parkman

#9. As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Stephen Bayley

#10. School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.

Troy Garity

#11. When nations grow old the Arts grow cold
And commerce settles on every tree

William Blake

#12. I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

Shia Labeouf

#13. But with art came idolatry; with construction came ostentation and oppression; with commerce came luxury.

James Oscar Boyd

#14. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Nipsey Hussle

#15. There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.

Thomas Schlamme

#16. For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock.

Peter Wollen

#17. IDEAS TRICKLE OUT OF SCIENCE, into the flow of commerce, where they drift into the less predictable eddies of art and philosophy.

Steven Johnson

#18. Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

William Blake

#19. Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.

David Foster

#20. I'm a long time [Scott] Fitzgerald fan, as probably everyone in America is. And I've always been fascinated by that theme of, what is the price of the American dream and what parts of your soul do you walk away with? The conflict of art versus commerce was also very interesting to me.

Matt Bomer

#21. The society with lots of open disagreement and social conflict is the one surging with power in art, science, commerce, constructive social reform, and (most of all) religious revival; the hushed-up society where everyone is afraid to say what he thinks is on the brink of violence and collapse.

Greg Forster

#22. Rembrandt was an innovator not only in painting but also in commerce. He helped establish a full-fledged art market in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. "Rembrandt's obsession with the intricacies of the market system permeated his life and his work,

John McMillan

#23. The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

John Philpot Curran

#24. When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate our actions (even if they're taking place within the profane arena of commerce) beyond ego and above gimme-gimme ambition.

Steven Pressfield

#25. The progress of manufactures and commerce insensibly collects a large multitude within the walls of a city: but these citizens are no longer soldiers; and the arts which adorn and improve the state of civil society, corrupt the habits of the military life.

Edward Gibbon

#26. It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

Sidney Lumet

#27. You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

Chris Cooper

#28. I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.

Laura Donnelly

#29. And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

Talib Kweli

#30. A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

Q-Tip

#31. Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.

Lewis H. Lapham

#32. Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#33. Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Gregory Bateson