Art Worth Quotes

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.

Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a rotting cow's head covered by maggots and swarms of buzzing flies may be pretty unsellable. Until the artist becomes a star. Then he can sell anything he touches .

Buying art is not understanding art.

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

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

Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.

The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.

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.

So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!

Art can retain its value and even make you some money. If you have your iPhone on you - and you probably do - look for the artist's signature, and use that to look up the artist and get a sense of the piece's value before you buy it.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.