Administrative Quote by Jules Shear

It's very hard for an artist to negotiate their fees. My job is to act; my manager's job should be to handle the business…

— Mahira Khan

If an artiste has the conviction to carry something off, he or she can do anything.

— Urmila Matondkar

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic.

— Micah Lexier

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.

— Jimmy Iovine

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what gets into…

— Chuck D

I had to learn, because as an artist myself, an artist owns that right to protect their interest of how they want to roll…

— Bryce Wilson

You can't brand an artiste and take away the fact that he or she wants to do something genuinely different.

— Sameera Reddy

Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll…

— Isaac Hanson

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

— John Updike