Glenn Danzig Quotes

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000 copies, and we sold them all.

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, 'Do you like Anselm Kiefer?' He would stare at you with a blank stare, because these are not celebrities. They are celebrated in a specific circle.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

Selling art is a lot different than making it.

Dealers claim that women artists are not as salable as men, that they are a poor investment. We know that there are few women art collectors, a fact which may have an impact on the market.

We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality.

I rarely meet a lot of the people who buy and collect my work.

Museum of Modern Art doesn't have anything to do with what I do. Probably has made some differences in my sales, I wouldn't be surprised. Again, you have to ask other people, because I don't have a measuring device.

Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the credit card or check book. The gallery's number one concern is will this stuff sell? What your bio, artist's statement or resume articulates will be of no help if you don't make art that connects with buyers.

The youth coming up is interested in dance now, and they're coming to the shows. That's a blessing for those of us who create.

I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer - my version of him - that's in his collection.

Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set.

I did this whole series on the buffalo soldiers-on black soldiers-I did another series on black cowboys, and I presented myself to the gallery system, and all these people with these massive collections didn't know there were black cowboys or black soldiers. I ended up hitting a niche I didn't know was there.

If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop.

I'm not a rapper; I'm an artist. And I'm more than an artist. I'm a brand.

14th- and 15th-century drawings are almost unheard-of - and as a result, they generate jealous desire among dealers and curators. Museums in particular value rarity and pedigree more than attractiveness.

Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.

In 2011, 'Yourself in the World,' a book of my writings and interviews, was published in conjunction with a retrospective of my work at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

People don't buy and sell art based on the personality of the artist. Or there wouldn't be much art bought and sold.

I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate.