Quotes About Art

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.

Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.

He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

Unfortunately, I think music videos are a dying breed because there is no money in them.

You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio.

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.

The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.

I will paint for money any time.

It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous and make a lot of money. They might be in for a bad turn.

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.

Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

Film is my passion. I had no money, after Human Zoo. I was completely broke. It was horrible. My film was in Berlin on opening night, but I couldn't even get to Berlin.