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“It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.”

Way Artist Rich Fame Motive Tangible Being An Artist Become Rich

Author:Dirk Benedict

“Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.”

Knows Age Today Artist Rich Havens Ancient Entertainers

Author:Pablo Picasso

“It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view on the TV has thrust imagined forms into the shadow. We are staggeringly rich in facts, in things, and perhaps, like the nouveau riche of other ages, we want our wealth faithfully reproduced by the artist.”

People Want Believe Hard Facts Seems Age Form Artist Wealth Views Rich Tvs Shadow Exciting Thrust Nouveau Riche

Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

“A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities.”

Inspiration Form Used Artist Wish Rich Possibility Clean Landscape Colour Inherent Begging Crisps

Author:Franklin Carmichael

“A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists.”

Artist Culture Rich Capable Imaginative Surviving

Book:L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Vol 24: Writers of the Future vol 24

Source: L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Vol 24: Writers of the Future vol 24

“One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?”

Source: The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall