Art Quote by Vittorio De Sica

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist

— Sean Lennon

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art…

— Jack White

I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they…

— Berton Braley

It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have…

— Christine Leunens

I think art maybe has just become very consumer-oriented, and maybe it's always been that way because it is a business.

— Noel Wells

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

— Holland Cotter

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are…

— Ronnie Apteker

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private…

— Richard Eyre

It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very…

— Esperanza Spalding

“For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Art is a business, like any other.

— Catherine Stock

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

— Andy Rooney