Art Quote by Alec Monopoly

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.

— Marcel Duchamp

It's strange with graffiti. You put a lot out, but you don't get that much back because not many people know who's doing it.…

— KAWS

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one…

— John Dyer

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

— Banksy

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my…

— Donald Trump

I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the dealers would…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that…

— Grandma Moses

Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes things and…

— Kerry James Marshall

I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you…

— Peter Doig