Quotes About Money

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.

I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

In the art world, Monet means money.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol's Factory.

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.

The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

Less money for public media means less access to the arts.