Art Quote by Nicole Holofcener

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

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it,…

— M.I.A

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

— Adam Davidson

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and…

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.

— Philip Pullman

The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible…

— Yasumasa Morimura

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No…

— Abraham Lincoln

“There has to be something other than keeping busy that gives human life value, because our society so often functions as if ‘productivity’ and/or…

— Tasha Golden

When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.

— Woody Allen

When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden…

— Mark Rothko

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

— Charles Saatchi

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

— John Barth