Ruth Bradley Quotes

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

The projects that I've been fortunate enough to do are all projects where I followed my heart. I didn't follow the money or the names. It's all about reflecting my life and my art.

I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.

To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squandering this incredible gift I've been given to finance films. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know?

Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.

As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can't really hold in your hand. I work not for money but for my career, to expand myself as an artist. Every video I make, it's not making me any money; it's just because I want to expand.