Art Quote by J. D. Salinger Download Open image “I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.” — J. D. Salinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Distraction Greater Hunger Inspirational Money Suspects
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved. — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
Being a hungry artist, you don't have the luxury of buying whatever you want. There were years of me doing a lot of odd… — Eric Nam Copy Share Image
People who aren't artists don't think about creativity and art; they think about money. — James Arthur Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail. — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's… — Adam Leipzig Copy Share Image
... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books.” — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men,… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You keep records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them. If you want to Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
