Selling Art Quotes

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

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

I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.

It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.

Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.

I am free to make anything I want as long as I think it will sell.

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.

To make money, I did portraits. The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

Galleries in the West have probably been looking for exoticism. That's the reason my paintings initially sold well, I think. And then once they started selling, people said my works were very detailed. They may have represented something Japanese to them.

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.

Once you start trying to sell creativity, you're always going to run into the problem that the people selling it aren't as creative as the people making it, and the people making it don't know how to talk business with the people trying to sell it.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.

If I do need to make money suddenly, I prefer to just draw something I want to draw and have someone else sell it for me on the Internet.

To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.

Selling art is a lot different than making it.

At first, I didn't want to do unicorns. The artist in me said no. Then I thought, 'Wait a minute: this is commercial art. Let's do what's going to sell.'