Art Economy Quotes

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic value.

In art economy is always beauty.

The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

I think the problem with the art market and the art scene is that it is its own beast. It thrives and breathes and defecates independently of the artist.

I started off with the quality of life, with peotic allusions, with a great deal of philosophical background, and I changed my pitch to what the arts do for the economy.