Shepard Fairey Quotes

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

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.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

I've never chosen or rejected a role because of money.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.

I don't make money doing my podcast. I've learned that people want to hire creative people who are already doing something when they approach them.

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.

Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.

There's no art where there's no fee.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

People are buying my life when they're buying those records. I hate to sound bigheaded or something, but that's the reality of it. Suddenly, everything you've been doing means something.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

I have done films only for the sake of money and sometimes, I have been duped into believing that the film is a sensible project.

If you're passionate enough you can restore anything but it depends whether you're doing it to try and make money or just because you're crazy about it.

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art.

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport that which is "grave and constant" (Joyce's epithets) in the mystery of our condition.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

Money is merely a reward for solving problems.

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

Sometimes you feel you're making something really special and when it comes out you might still feel that way but for some reason it doesn't get the audience. So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film.