Rachel Kushner Quotes

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

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

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.

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.

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 soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

For me, money has never been an indicator. And it is very sad that each and every film these days is being judged by the money that it makes. It's a world that I don't want to be a part of, and I try and stay away from that.

My entire approach is built on the idea that things can be commercial and artistic.

I personally don't distinguish between artistic and commercial films.

grievance does not make for great art.

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.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

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

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.

It's not in the interest of the artist to think of his market.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

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.

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