Artistic Entrepreneurship Quotes

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

What I'd tell any kid in high school is, 'Take business classes.' I don't care what else you're gonna do; if you're gonna do art or anything, take business classes. You can say, 'Well, I don't want to get commercial,' but if you do anything to make any money, you're doing something commercial.

When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved ... But on the flip side, now I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

When I came into the music, I was forced to be a CEO. I was forced to be an entrepreneur; I was forced to... because I was looking for a deal. I didn't have this grand scheme of starting a record company and then morphing into a clothing empire.

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.

I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a chance to make something of it, I'd see someone else do it. I just liked to watch my fellow artists become entrepreneurs and be people who can inspire the next generation. I did that more with my songs.

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.

Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.

I want to give other creatives the opportunity to find the entrepreneur inside themselves and teach them how to build their own platform.

Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.

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 my approach to a creative career was very entrepreneurial. Even though I'm a writer, I've always viewed my work much in the same way as a startup or marketer might view their work.

If you were a painter and a rock and roll musi­cian and weren't established in either - to be an artist today you have to be as much a businessman to suc­ceed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

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

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.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.

My company, Kaikai Kiki, is unique because it's an art business. I had to find out how to do this by myself.

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.

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.