“I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.” CountryDoneStreetsPaintingWallBuyingWealthyCollectors Author:Scott Kahn
“Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.” ThinkingMenEndsPaintingHeroFameDifficultyPossessionDuesGreat MenBuyingPublishingUnderwearBasementsHackingFortsUnawareness Book:Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren Source: Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren
“I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art.” ArtPiecesPaintingBuyingFurnitureRearranging Author:Evangeline Lilly
“I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel really sort of uncomfortable, almost as though you were buying into a situation - which, again, is another way of looking at those paintings. The body language in those paintings is a lot more stiff.” WayFeelsMadeBodyLanguagePaySituationEconomicPaintingModelsUncomfortableBuyingAnother WayBody LanguageBartering Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody's going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be out on the street selling apples and pencils and they're still going to be buying paintings for this money, so I don't know what's going on in this world.” PeopleKnowsWorldStillsStreetsThis WorldPaintingSellingBrokeApplesBuyingPencilsLoan Author:Dennis Hopper