“I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.” ThinkingWritingPersonsArtEndsBigsArtistPayNovelMiddleConsequenceResourcesHarderMiddle Aged Author:Dana Spiotta
“I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.” ArtistPayRecordsPaidContractsUnusualRoyalty Author:Jo Stafford
“There aren't that many songs that pay homage to the DJ. They are the ones getting artists' music out there. They are the ones getting the club popping. But no one's giving them any love.” GivingArtistSongPayClubsHomageDjsPopping Author:Tila Tequila
“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!” PeopleRealSeemsArtistSidesPayPositionLifetimePainterHonourComplimentShowersReal Friends Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.” PeopleArtArtistHoursPayArt IsPaid Author:Jack White
“Since art exists for humanity it is not unreasonable to assume that humanity has some rights in the matter. Who pays the piper calls the tune. An artist cannot be at once a rebel and a comfortable citizen.” ArtMatterArtistHumanityPayRightsCitizensComfortableAssumingTunesRebelUnreasonablePipers Author:Walter J. Phillips
“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.” WellsCountryCharacterArtistEnergyPayMistakeAcceptingStyleWillingMaterialsPersonalitySucceedPrejudiceWell BeingSpokesSensationsGreat ArtFanaticismGreat ArtistPay The Price Author:Cyril Connolly
“No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the empty canvas were signed by a great artist. I would be surprised if an empty canvas by Picasso or Matisse signed and inscribed with the words, 'I wanted to paint such and such on this canvas, but did not do so,' would not fetch thousands... After all, with an empty canvas, the possibilities are limitless, and so perhaps is the cash.” IfsWantWould BeWantedArtistPayPossibilityEmptyPaintRecognitionCashCanvasGreat ArtLimitlessPenniesGreat ArtistFetchMatisseEmpty Canvas Author:Semir Zeki
“I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.” WritingArtistActorsPayCreativeDirectorsZeroTributeCreative ArtCreative Artists Author:Clint Eastwood
“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.” MatterArtistPayPaintingMethodPaintProfessionWhat Matters Author:Jim Rowe
“Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.” ArtArtistChoicesCoursesPayChosenLifelongPay The Price Author:Sally Warner