Commerce Quote by Frank Capra

I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set…

— Philip Johnson

Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.

— Georges Braque

“ 'Tell me, please,' Van Gogh asked, 'is it justifiable that a person wastes his only life by selling worthless paintings for fools? ”

— Irving Stone

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

— Barnett Newman

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

— Robert Genn

All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the…

— William Blake

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is…

— Robert Hughes

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

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky…

— Patrick Wilson

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

— Steve Martin

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and…

— Oscar Wilde