Quotes About Art

Money is a kind of poetry.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

I'm still around artists. I don't have anymore wall space. And I don't have the money to collect anymore, the prices are outrageous.

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.

Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like?

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it." It was not an honorable thing to do.

With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

Most of the movies that I've made that I really felt good about and cared about made very little money anyway, so I'm not particularly worried about people downloading and sharing them.

What is a screenplay? 120 pages of begging for money and attention.

I don't care much about the money at all. Frankly, if I get the chance to kiss someone in a movie, they wouldn't need to pay me at all.

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.