Adam Davidson Quotes

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.

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

In art economy is always beauty.

But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it.

I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on.

The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.

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 to let things settle and think about them.

To me, spending millions of dollars recreating the world's sadness with actors and props and sets - it seems like a kind of arrogant waste of money... Unless, that is, it's a film about an historical event.