Artistic Income Quotes

I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.

You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.

I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

I decided to stay in art and earn some money.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

Ain't no money like music money, because music money don't stop.

I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

I'm shocked that I can live pretty well, or reasonably, or make a certain amount of my living, anyway, off of prints. I guess it's nuts. I don't believe in it. I never anticipated it; I still don't believe it.

We're focused on growing the pie so the artists can go back to making a meaningful amount of money.