Quotes About Value

Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.

For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work."

What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.