“It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.” PeopleNeedsMindArtProductsArt IsMythStoresGroceriesGrocery StoresBuyersStockingsSalespersonGrocery Lists Author:Jack White
“Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.” ArtFashionProductsArt IsCriticsWorks Of ArtTransient Author:Robert Genn
“I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world. I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don't want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantHumansArtWholeFeltAttentionStyleProductsAchievementUniqueArt IsRecognitionPay AttentionAccomplishmentCoastHuman ExperienceCarpet Author:Bill Reid
“Art is something about the spirit... if you want to make something that has a spirit, and speaks to the spirit of other people in the world, you have to touch it, you have to physically address it... if you don't, if you just farm it out, it becomes a product.” PeopleIfsWorldWantArtSpiritSpiritualitySpeakProductsArt IsAddressesFarms Author:Shary Boyle
“Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.” HumansArtFormHuman NatureParticularProductsArt Is Author:Anton Webern
“Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.” MayPersonsArtArtistDecisionCareersMysteryInfluenceEmotionalProductsTasteArt IsEducatedPersonal Taste Author:Ernest West Basden
“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.” HumansArtRealEconomyProductsArt IsTragedyLastingEndeavor Author:Paul Getty
“Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.” ArtMadeIdeasFoundProcessPerfectInspiringDesignExpressionProductsArt IsFoundationVisualsVehicleVerbsNounsDesign And ArtProduct Design Author:Paul Rand
“Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business.” ArtEndsProductsPrayingHolyArt IsSwearSermonsReducingSwear Word Author:John Perry Barlow
“Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.” WantArtMightArtistRecordsProductsArt IsBeing An Artist Author:Patrick Stump
“Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years of hard work and insignificance to make her mark on the art world. Part of her growth is in realizing - even embracing - that the process of art is more important than the product or the recognition.” WorldWantYearsDoeArtImportantBookHardCertainWaitingProcessGrowthRealizingProductsHard WorkArt IsMarkRecognitionImpatienceExhibitsIvyArt WorldThrough The YearsInsignificance Author:Liza Campbell
“A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.” MindHumansArtEarthResultsAirStrangeProductsActivityArt IsRoseComplicatedVisibleWorks Of ArtHuman MindBosoms Author:Clive Bell
“ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are no expamples of art, nor good reasons to think that it will ever exist. (Everything that has been made has been made with a purpose, teverything with an end exists outside of that thing, i.e., "I want to sell this", or "I want this to make me famous and loved", or "I want this to make me whole", or worse, "I want this to make others whole.") And yet we continue to write, paint, sculpt and compose. Is this foolish of us?” ThinkingWantWritingHas BeensArtMadeEndsReasonWholePurposeSuccessfulProductsArt IsSellsPaintFoolishWorks Of Art Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art . . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.” IfsShouldDoeArtArtistLeftProductsActivityArt IsStudiosConclusionLeft Alone Author:Bruce Nauman