This Business Of Art Quotes

#1. Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

William Deresiewicz

#2. I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

Nico Tortorella

#3. Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?'

Robert Hass

#4. Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.

Philip Zaleski

#5. The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

Charlton Heston

#6. The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea ... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

Ad Reinhardt

#7. The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

Immanuel Kant

#8. Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

#9. Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.

Aldo Leopold

#10. You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.

Rose McGowan

#11. I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of art being compromised.

Shepard Fairey

#12. Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be.

Gene Simmons

#13. He had learnt how to feign pleasure in a state of pain; how to feign a rosy picture if there was a gloomy affair; how to feign profits when there were losses. And the art of feigning benefited him in his life, at least in business...

Girdhar Joshi

#14. Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

James Altucher

#15. The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#16. 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

#17. Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.

Penn Jillette

#18. He never retorted that the artist is not a bricklayer at all, but a horseman whose business it is to catch Pegasus at once, not to practise for him by mounting tamer colts. This is hard, hot and generally ungraceful work, but it is not drudgery. For drudgery is not art, and cannot lead to it.

E. M. Forster

#19. So you fake and you flaw, for your cops and your cause. It makes no difference to me. It's love that you stole, that you stole.

Sara Quin

#20. I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Walt Disney

#21. The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?

Abe Ajay

#22. Promise me you'll never go away.
Promise me you'll always stay.

Tegan Quin

#23. As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.

Chris Martin

#24. This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

Janet Malcolm

#25. This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.

James Altucher

#26. The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

John Dewey

#27. I'm always right, always wrong. Dressing bad's like loving you there is nothing i haven't worn. Nothing, I haven't said before. You are nothing I haven't felt before.

Tegan Quin

#28. Happiness is a tricky business. It may not have as much to do with doing as it has to do with not doing.

Art Hochberg

#29. I can't believe I've let you in, and now here I am telling you that I'm suffocating in here.

Sara Quin

#30. It would seem, from this, that the people of Omanorion had mastered the ultra-civilized art of minding their own business.

Clark Ashton Smith

#31. What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

Robert Henri

#32. People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate.

Mandy Patinkin

#33. Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

Roger Corman

#34. If I gave you my number would it still be the same If I saved you from drowning?

Tegan Quin

#35. Public relations, in this country, is the art of adapting big business to a democracy so that the people have confidence that they are being well served and at the same time the business has freedom to serve them well.

Arthur W. Page

#36. This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?

Christopher Hitchens

#37. Most true artists care about music as a pure, passionate art form, but can get caught in the trap of the business. Which, sadly, has now become more important than the artist or even the music itself.

Rosanna Arquette

#38. Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

Ronnie Apteker

#39. If you focus on what you want and you persevere, chances are you succeed. You know, that's what I found. It might not be in acting - it might be in business, financing, it might be in the arts, it might be in anything. But it's all about focusing and being inspired.

Cory Monteith

#40. Ask yourself, are you an artist, or are you an art business? You can be both, but to be successful you need to think and act like a business owner.

Dave Conrey

#41. Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

O. Henry

#42. It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

George Bernard Shaw

#43. You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

Marina Abramovic

#44. Reach - The art of relentlessly pursuing a divine assigned goal or objective beyond expectations.

Catherine Crumber

#45. Why are other people profiting off that? I can see that if I have the page and sold it for $50 and 20 years later somebody's got it for $200, okay. That's business. But I had no say in that art being out there. It just really burns me.

Mike Royer

#46. Don't try to follow trends. Create them.

Simon Zingerman

#47. The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business - all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

Daniel J. Levitin

#48. Valuing a business is part art and part science.

Warren Buffett

#49. The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether
it's in the arts, sciences, or business.

Teresa Amabile

#50. 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

#51. There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

Amanda Palmer

#52. I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

Duane Michals

#53. I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.

Larry Gagosian

#54. Around this world will I be enough?
From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama blues
I am nothing if I'm not with you.

Sara Quin

#55. Design is not really a way for me to express myself. Design is a product that we produce for a client.

Peleg Top

#56. Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.

Vanna Bonta

#57. I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?

Jami Attenberg

#58. I've always felt writing is an art. Publishing is a business. I felt strongly if I was going to write, I would write what I wanted to, and if the 'market' didn't respond, there was nothing I could really do about it.

M.J. Rose

#59. All praise of Civilization, or Art, or Contrivance, is so much dispraise of Nature ; an admission of imperfection, which it is man's business, and merit, to be always endeavouring to correct or mitigate.

John Stuart Mill

#60. Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

John Perry Barlow

#61. Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.

Pearl Zhu

#62. 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

#63. Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.

Ron Perlman

#64. If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

Karl Kraus

#65. Business capabilities enable strategic communication and execution' it's part of art and part of science.

Pearl Zhu

#66. Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.

Nicole Kidman

#67. The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#68. Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

Jerry Saltz

#69. He printed business cards celebrating his shift. They read, 'Ars gratia pecuniae.' Translated, it meant, 'Art for money's sake.

Kliph Nesteroff

#70. It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

Eric Hoffer

#71. It's a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at all times because knowing how to anticipate someone's subtle nuances in a performance will only elevate your own art!

Tisha Campbell-Martin

#72. Art is a business, like any other.

Catherine Stock