Artistic Business Quotes

Now I have a business, artists to take care of. I want to make sure everything's going right, because at the end of the day, it's my name.

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.

I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.

I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of what the company has become.

You learn really quickly how not only to be an artist, but you also become all of a sudden the CEO and owners of a company that you have to make major decisions about that I don't think we were fully prepared for in the beginning.

All I do all day is think of ideas and implement them. That's an industry, you know. I'm trying to make art on a commercial scale.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.

And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out. And I do think it's sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing. But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.

Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.