Quotes About Art

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

Painting is a strange business.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

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.

I see marketing not only as a vital skill for small business success, but more importantly, as a vehicle to create art and connect deeply with and serve others to make the world a better place.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

One person's tattoo is nobody else's business

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

There's no business like show business.

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

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.