Quotes About Value

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.

Art is the consciousness of currency.

Art is a business, like any other.

Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.

In the art world, Monet means money.

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

Art is not disposable.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.