Cost Quote by Damien Hirst

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk…

— John Guare

You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how…

— Yayoi Kusama

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human…

— John Guare

It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.

— Steve Martin

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

— George Carlin

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves…

— Edvard Munch

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea…

— Liam Gillick

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to…

— Graham Sutherland

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

— Robert Genn

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