Art Quote by Michael Craig-Martin

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea…

— Liam Gillick

I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market…

— Olafur Eliasson

Some people buy art because they're confident that it'll be a good store value, and this is kind of a recent phenomenon.

— Larry Gagosian

I hate it when people say that art shouldnt be a commodity. A lot of the rooms in museums, and all the Frieze week…

— Grayson Perry

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

Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with…

— Arne Glimcher

Art is like an avalanche being poured down your throat. You know it's going to crack, eventually it's going to go out of fashion.…

— Laurence Graff

The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.

— Adam Clayton

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of…

— Claude Monet

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

I don't think the art market is for everybody. Yeah, of course we have a global gallery. But we're like the one-tenth of the…

— Larry Gagosian

The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

— Larry Gagosian