Best artist & collectors Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.”

Real Moments Artist Crisis Financial Collectors Financial Crisis True Artists Moment Of Truth

“To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.”

Artist Connections Relate Collectors Juxtaposition

“You will face boredom and frustration your entire career as artists. You will be very frustrated seeking a voice/style that collectors can connect with. Once you accomplish that voice/style people are clamoring for, you will become bored doing it.”

People Faces Artist Voice Careers Style Seeking Accomplish Bored Boredom Frustration Frustrated Collectors

Book:Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales

Source: Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales

“The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.”

Artist Sane Tolerate Collectors True Artists Insincerity Impudence

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.”

Needs Ideas Artist Demand Critics Applause Collectors Condemnation

Author:Robert Genn

“Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get it. Once they start to mingle with the collectors and learn that they are people who have achieved something who then expand into art, they change their minds.”

People Mind Art Kids Artist Parent Critics Collectors Money And Power

Author:Mark Kostabi

“Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.”

Ifs Has Beens Soul Artist Could Have Been Psychiatrist Collectors Portraiture Chekhov

Author:Alice Neel

“Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in mind' for this work. The artist then need not bother with producing the work, and therefore need not be worried about being dis-satisfied. All he or she needs to do is to sell it to a collector. The collector will have the guarantee that the artist thought about the work, even if momentarily, and therefore be satisfied.”

Ifs Needs Mind Artist Concepts Empty Sells Satisfied Worried Bother Guarantees Canvas Collectors Guarantees That Inscriptions Empty Canvas

Author:Semir Zeki

“Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.”

Art Artist Talking Special Elements Add Meetings Possession Treasure Contemporary Collecting Collectors Irreplaceable Contemporary Art

Author:Ernest West Basden

“People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but a piece of the artist.”

People Knows Artist Pieces Painting Serious Know Me Collectors Get To Know Me

Author:Toni Onley

“It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.”

Artist Critics Recognition Great Art Great Artist Collectors Curator

Author:David Galenson

“Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.”

Firsts Artist Found Type Mets Pages Delight Intense Flash Collecting Collectors Flash Gordon

Author:Joe Shuster

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