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“The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“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.”

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

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

“I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.”

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Author:Jack White

“Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.”

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Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.”

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Author:Sara Genn

“Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.”

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Author:A. Y. Jackson

“Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with... not really so scary.”

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Author:Adam Leipzig

“Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.”

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Author:Elizabeth Aston

“The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.”

“I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.”

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Author:Lord Acton

“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.”

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”

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Book:Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

“An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”

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Author:Andy Warhol

“An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.”

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Book:Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?