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“My father said being an artist is the shortest road to the poor house , claiming "real" work is something you don't like. I…

— Russell Chatham

I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I…

— Charles Saatchi

“...I did hate those people...those false artists whose work consists of the poses they strike: saying outrageous things, cultivating complicated tastes and appetites, being…

— Mario De Sa-carneiro

I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went to an…

— Abhay Deol

“When I was a child, my artist mom told me that there was no such thing as bad art. I know now that this…

— Chris Orwig

I simply loathe the crude 1960s distinctions between commerce and art. For me, Warhol and pop obliterated all of those separations - that was…

— Peter Marino

“There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.”

— Criss Jami

It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had…

— Betty Dodson

“I don't suppose there has been a moment in the world's history where more people felt themselves to be artists, of when less art…

— Auberon Waugh

“I refused, and still refuse, the inflated definition of artists as special people with special prerogatives and special excuses.”

— Anne Truitt

“Convincing myself I was a “good artist” while also knowing how pointless it was to be one.”

— Guillaume Morissette

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't…

— Charlie Chaplin