William Morris Hunt Quotes

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

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.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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

When it comes to art, you just need to be focused on doing a great thing. Not thinking all about the business.

I have no goal to have artistic credibility.

You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So I live by that rule.

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.

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

When you're an artist, you're working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it's probably the most disrespectful thing you can do.

I want to be an artist, not be in the business of making hit records. Once I figured that out, everything became clear.

I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

Whether it's a huge hit or sold five copies, as long artistically and creatively I can stand by what I did, then I'll feel successful.

It's about being true to my artistry, which I've been doing. It's super important to do smart films.

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?

It took me a long time to get to a position where I can feel that, with my art, I'm capable of saying what I need to say, and once I finish it, I can sit back and say, "It's done, and I'm okay with that. People can judge it good or bad, and it doesn't matter. I'm okay with it because I said something I needed to say." That's a really hard place to get, as an artist.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just 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.

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake