Art Quote by Rudolf Bing Download Open image “It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.” — Rudolf Bing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Clerks Mediocre Mediocrity Office Post office Posts
Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic. — Micah Lexier Copy Share Image
Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time. — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“The paradox of being a professional artist. How we spend our lives trying to express ourselves well, but we have nothing to tell. We… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“USURY: Everybody's looking for the job in which you never have to pay anyone their pound of flesh. Self-employed nirvana. A lot of artists like to think of themselves as uncompromising; a lot of management consultants won't tell you what they do until they've sunk five pints. I don't think anybody should give themselves air just because they don't have… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I will not enter into a public feud with Madame Callas, since I am well aware that she has considerably greater competence and experience… — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
I never for a moment believed they would perform at 10 o'clock in the morning. It's hard enough getting them to perform at 8 at night. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered… — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well? — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
Miss Renata Tebaldi was always sweet and very firm... she had dimples of iron. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the services of first-class conductors. They are sick and tired of dealing with singers, as I am. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
