I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my…

I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity…

— Kiri Te Kanawa

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

— R. D. Laing

“Whether you believe in God or are an atheist, you cannot deny that the empirical facts of science have nothing to do with whether…

— Carlton D. Pearson

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't…

— Charlie Chaplin

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to…

— Franco Moschino

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30s film or a movie of David's Lynch or…

— Laura Dern

I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but…

— Vin Diesel

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going…

— Tina Weymouth

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

— Xavier Niel

“Both money and art powdered as they are with the romance and poetry of the age are magic. Rather money is magic art is…

— Tom Robbins

There has always been a correlation between money and art.

— Simon de Pury

Where there is money there is no art.

— William Blake

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

— Andy Warhol

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

— Duke Ellington