Accepting Quote by Georg Baselitz

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that…

— Jim Rowe

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

— Adam Davidson

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

— Antony Gormley

In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me…

— Georg Baselitz

Money messes up everything. It ruins art. The second you start putting price tags on this stuff, it's... Art isn't for just the wealthy.…

— John Gourley

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

— Joe Bradley

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.

— Antony Gormley

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

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

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact…

— Todd Solondz

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question…

— Alain de Botton

Art should be for everyone, not just the rich.

— Zawe Ashton