Quotes About Art

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.

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?

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

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

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

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

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.

One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.