Quotes About Art

I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

Music-making as a means of getting money is hell

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

Invest your money in Dada! Dada is the only savings bank that pays interest in the hereafter!

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

Usually the more money that something takes to make, the less interesting it's forced to become.

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can't.

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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.