Franco Moschino Quotes

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write a fantasy. That's a good thing. I have to pay my mortgage, and I have to pay for my Chargers season tickets.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.

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

I don't say I create. I copy, of course. I've never been interested in the point of view of the tailor or creator. Fashion is a visual impression. This is why I often refuse the name of fashion designer. It's a superficial, stupid job. The social-psychological aspect is more interesting.

I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

Intel is not the right person to be making clothing or even wristbands. We want to provide the fashion industry with the technical solutions.

I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.

I've had a great experience in the fashion business.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money.

I first met Michael Angel when he came to my office with a box of prints and asked me whether I thought he should make dresses from the prints.

I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.

The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions of what is right, good and just should be examined from a concrete, operational point of view. A dose of reality is most edifying.

The Democrat’s worst fear is that somebody, somewhere is making money. And the Republicans are afraid that people are having fun. Well, we like to do both.

If it weren't for 'Cuckoo's Nest,' it would be very difficult for me. It gave me a cushion to live at my artistic pace and not fear I wouldn't have money to live on.