Absurd Quote by Georg Baselitz

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art,…

— Eli Broad

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in…

— Pablo Picasso

There's a market for art, and things are indeed going swimmingly, especially for German artists. But everything takes place in America and in London,…

— Georg Baselitz

I hate it when people say that art shouldnt be a commodity. A lot of the rooms in museums, and all the Frieze week…

— Grayson Perry

Spending money on art has always been frowned upon in this country - even earlier, when my and others' paintings cost almost nothing. Something…

— Georg Baselitz

Artists don't compare themselves to each other based on money. Nobody really knows what money other artists have. They don't care that much. The…

— Donald Sultan

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the…

— Georg Baselitz

When museums are left with so little money that their future is in the hands of private donors, then they are unable to develop…

— Olafur Eliasson

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

— Tom Six

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

— Charles Saatchi

Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with…

— Arne Glimcher