Art Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“If [modern artists] hadn’t lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

— Uta Hagen

Despite all the taxes people pay, there supposedly isn't any money in this country for art. Of course, this makes an artist ask himself:…

— Georg Baselitz

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

— James Whistler

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases…

— Seth Godin

The average tax payer is not a big voluntary supporter of the arts. The only art that the average taxpayer buys voluntarily either has…

— Dave Barry

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

— Jeffrey Archer

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that…

— Jim Rowe

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

— Leo Tolstoy

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

— Anselm Kiefer

“Jubal shrugged. "Abstract design is all right-for wall paper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not…

— Robert A. Heinlein

As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You…

— Eleanor Catton