Art Quote by Ezra Pound

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to…

— Ezra Pound

The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan;…

— Washington Allston

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist…

— Shana Alexander

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

— Francis Ford Coppola

An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be…

— Lewis Hyde

“The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.”

— William S. Burroughs

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

— T Bone Burnett

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan…

— Henry David Thoreau

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

— Patti Smith

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from…

— Lukas Foss

Some things I won't do for any amount of money. That's so demoralizing and goes against every principle that I hold. It's like, okay,…

— Robert Crumb