Art Quote by Tracey Emin Download Open image “I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.” — Tracey Emin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Business Commerce Inspirational Love
I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce. — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
As much as I'm an artist, I consider myself a business person of sorts. — Ariana DeBose Copy Share Image
Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be. — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop. — Lyle Tuttle Copy Share Image
And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I'm not just going to accept something because it's a lot of money. I'm an artist; content is incredibly important to me. — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman. — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
Someone else who liked what I did might turn around and say, "She's reworking and rethinking everything. She could just be making blankets now, and be a lot wealthier." I'm actually making it difficult for myself. I wouldn't call it re-branding. If I get bored with my work, then other people will - it's that simple. And I'm not gonna… — Tracey Emin Copy Share
I know people went to laugh at my bed and to jeer at it. Still, at least they actually went to see it. — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here. — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend. — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
The reason why I'm popular as an artist in this country is because it suits the psyche of the nation at this time. Ten… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism. — Tracey Emin 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 water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“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 who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“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
