“Art isn't meaningless… It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
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1899
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Claude Debussy
(1862–1918) French composer
As quoted in Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought (1992) by John Paynter, p. 590
Unsourced variant: Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
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William Saroyan
(1908–1981) American writer
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Gerhard Richter
(1932) German visual artist, born 1932
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“Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.”
Andy Warhol
(1928–1987) American artist
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), p. 92
Context: Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. After I did the thing called 'art' or whatever it's called, I went into business art. I wanted to be an Art Businessman or a Business Artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippies era people put down the idea of business – they'd say 'Money is bad', and 'Working is bad', but making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.