W. H. Auden Quotes

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.

There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won't get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers.

Money messes up everything. It ruins art. The second you start putting price tags on this stuff, it's... Art isn't for just the wealthy. It's for everybody to enjoy.

When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art.

I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to produce what sells, whether they believe in it or not. It depends on contracts.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen.

I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.

I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

Using creative expression as a means to a professional end makes me curl up a bit.

I think art maybe has just become very consumer-oriented, and maybe it's always been that way because it is a business.

Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. This is sad because football is the most beautiful game. We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere.

I think theater is the strongest place to find what's missing in entertainment. Unfortunately, it pays the least.

For me, money has never been an indicator. And it is very sad that each and every film these days is being judged by the money that it makes. It's a world that I don't want to be a part of, and I try and stay away from that.

I don't think you're selling out by allowing the masses to love your art. The only curse is that, when you get so big, sometimes people forget to look at the music.