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A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act…

— Anne Truitt

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history…

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether…

— Clive Bell

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

— Maria Shriver

Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

— Edwidge Danticat

For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no money it's…

— Damien Hirst

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

— Uta Hagen

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

— Andy Rooney

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some…

— Ai Weiwei

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

— Adam Davidson

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

— Charles Baudelaire