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“Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.”

Ifs Trying Artist Values Turns Records Truth Is Difficulty Threat Photographer Selling Contradiction Gray Shade Cash Worn Shades Of Gray

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.”

People Art Artist Art Is Selling Buying

Author:Damien Hirst

“The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”

Art Ideas Artist Business Ugly Selling Commodity Businessman

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?”

People Want Artist Asking Sells Selling Asking Questions

Author:Michael Scott

“I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.”

Important Artist Felt Teacher Sells Selling Landscape

Author:E. J. Hughes

“I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.”

Knows Persons Whole Artist Known Needed Selling Being An Artist

Author:Tove Styrke

“I think we're approaching an era where there's a consistent dialogue going on between artists and consumers. And I think that's going to be part of the solution to actually selling music.”

Thinking Artist Solutions Dialogue Selling Eras Consumers Consistent

Author:Girl Talk

“I buy based on emotion, because I am fascinated with an object that I simply cannot live without. Although I often end up acquiring two or three works by an artist who particularly interests me, it's more for fear that a single one might get too lonely.”

Two Ends Might Artist Three Interest Emotion Objects Lonely Selling Fascinated

Author:Michael Audain

“Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Important Artist Known Offers Sells Selling Artificial Frightening Promoting

Author:Adam Leipzig