Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

— Oscar Wilde

“People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk about money.”

— Christopher Bram

There has always been a correlation between money and art.

— Simon de Pury

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

— V. S. Pritchett

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the…

— Dave Winer

“The investment of money is a banker's business.”

— George Garr Henry

“Money talks and I listen.”

— Toba Beta

“Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

— Antony Gormley

Art is the consciousness of currency.

— Andrew Lakey

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to…

— Ezra Pound

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into…

— Ezra Pound