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• I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.
  Frank Auerbach Quotes - Artists
• I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
  Jean Michel Basquiat Quotes - Artists
• Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.
  Ram Dass Quotes - New Age Teachers
• Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.
  Joan Miro Quotes - Artists
• Plan your work, work your plan. Lack of system produces that "I'm swamped" feeling.
  Norman Vincent Peale Quotes - Spiritual Teachers - Self Improvement
• Have pity, mean girl. I can't go on. I can't go another day without seeing you. Atrocious madness, it's the end, I won't be able to work anymore. Malevolent goddess, and yet I love you furiously. (Rodin writing to his lover Camille Claudel)
  Auguste Rodin Quotes - Sculptors
• I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side.
  Jenny Saville Quotes - Artists
• I've been living with a lot of negativity for the past 15 years, but it never impacted on my work, or my way of working. It's like a rhinoceros with birds shitting on its back. It stopped me getting comfortable but it never worried me.
  Julian Schnabel Quotes - Artists
• When people see the beautiful marble in Trump Tower, they usually have no idea what I went through personally to achieve the end result. No one cares about the blood, sweat, and tears that art or beauty require. It’s the end result that matters.
  Donald Trump Quotes - Business People
• Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is. You should view your work that way too.
  Donald Trump Quotes - encouragement - comments - Business People
• I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that. But have I set my heart on my work being a success? A thousand times no. I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.
  Vincent van Gogh Quotes - Artists
• My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
  Vincent van Gogh Quotes - Artists
• All a record company is is a bank, and they loan you a little money to make a record and then they own you for the rest of your life. You don't even own your own work.
  Tom Waits Quotes - Singers
• Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
  Andy Warhol Quotes - Artists
• I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.
  Andy Warhol Quotes - American Artists
  
• I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.
  Andy Warhol Quotes - American Artists
• Art should astonish, transmute, transfix. One must work at the tissue between truth and paranoia.
  Brett Whiteley Quotes - Artists
• Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
  Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes - Architects