Quotes About Business

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

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

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit.

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world

I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

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

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

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

there's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art.

I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

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.

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