Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.
I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
I never expected to sell my art. It wasn't like today where you come out of art school and they promise you a future. Now it's almost regulated in a way. When we came out of school, we just wanted to make art that'd blow your hair back and do it for sport. There was no commercial possibility that we saw.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world
Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.
Business Art is the step that comes after Art.
My company, Kaikai Kiki, is unique because it's an art business. I had to find out how to do this by myself.
