Attention Quote by Julian Schnabel

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I think art maybe has just become very consumer-oriented, and maybe it's always been that way because it is a business.

— Noel Wells

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

— Stephane Mallarme

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

There are things going on in galleries recently that have shocked me. What I'm going to say is really controversial, but what I find…

— Tracey Emin

It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have…

— Christine Leunens

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about…

— Warren Cuccurullo

I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work…

— Philip Taaffe

I think the problem with the art market and the art scene is that it is its own beast. It thrives and breathes and…

— Robert Del Naja

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without…

— Jasper Johns

Some of the pictures are truly mysterious to me.. which is why I so often say publicly that I don't know or don't care…

— Susan Rothenberg

It's hard to live just by selling paintings.

— Ben Eine