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“My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!”

Artist Money Terrible

Author:Paul Gauguin

“We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.”

Jobs Artist Forget Money Months Demand Six Lawyer Producers Eras Making Money Tunes Engineers Destined Six Months Accountants

Author:Tony Bennett

“Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.”

Years Littles Seems Artist Values Asks Money Effort Five Percent Responsible

Author:Joe Fafard

“If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.”

Ifs Knows Want Artist Money Musician Concerned Advertising Ideology Journalist Manipulation

Book:You Are Not a Gadget

Source: You Are Not a Gadget

“I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.”

Thinking Should Artist Money Enemy Painting Significant Plenty Earning Resent Earning A Living

Author:Arnold Friberg

“I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art... that people actually paid for it... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.”

People Knows Art Made Ideas Moving Artist Realizing Money New York Paid Contemporary Dumb No Idea Embarrassing Naive Contemporary Art Really Dumb

Author:Wade Guyton

“And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!”

Art Joy Artist Stars Work Money Fame Draws

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”

Men Writing Art Artist Work Money Economics Blockheads

Author:Samuel Johnson

“But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.”

Artist Money Financial Designer Perfume License Reap Prototype

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.”

Artist Money Race Cities New York Greed New York City Cynical Stubborn Monument

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the categories of richness are concerned. Let me say it in this way: the man of wealth is the poorest rich man. Looked at from the side of the poor, he is the richest poor man. Looked at from the side of a creative artist, of a dancer, of a musician, of a scientist, he is the poorest rich man. And as far as the world of ultimate awakening is concerned he cannot even be called rich.”

Source: The World Beyond Time

“If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.”

Ifs World Needs Art Artist Money Building Equal Tools Pounds Patron Patronage Need Money

Book:The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn: 1915–1924

Source: The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn: 1915–1924

“Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth. How could we respond to the many calls for help, or invest for the future, or support the wonderful artists or craftsmen whose work also glorifies God, unless we had first worked hard and used our talents to create the necessary wealth?”

Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher

“A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.”

Artist Money Business Groups Artistic Boss

Author:Bobby Darin