Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss 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

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

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

— V. S. Pritchett

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

— Peter Doig

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

— George Garr Henry

When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

— Iggy Pop

There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an artist... is…

— Justin Cartwright

Art is the consciousness of currency.

— Andrew Lakey

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

— Jerry Saltz

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

— Don DeLillo