Anthony Burgess Quotes

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

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

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

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

As an artist, I will always give art more importance and preference than pure entertainment.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

I'm not an industry artist - I'm an artist in the industry.

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

You have to remain strong. That's the kind of filmmaker I want to encourage. Orson Welles was the one who said, you know, you can learn anything you need to know about filmmaking- that's camera, sound, celluloid, video at this point- in four hours. It has nothing to do with anything. It has nothing to do with it... It has to do with what you want to say. If you feel you have something to say, you'll find that way to get it said, on film, and not let anyone or anything chip away at that or tarnish it, because it's something special and precious.

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

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

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.