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-to her husband...
Dear, never forget one little point: It's my business. You just work here. (Elizabeth Arden)
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life. (Aristotle)
Too often today, art is treated as a business, which misses the opportunity to bring choice to the public. (Kenn Backhaus)
Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business. (Bruce Barton)
Business is more exciting than any game. (Lord Beaverbrook)
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. (Geoffrey Beene)
Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there. (Irving Berlin)
It is easy to let the business end of art overwhelm the process of painting. Slowing down is necessary in order to regain balance and focus. (Linda Blondheim)
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark: you know what you are doing but nobody else does. (Stuart Henderson Britt)
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. (Thomas Carlyle)
More business is lost every year through neglect, than through any other cause. (Jim Cathcart)
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth. (Charlie Chaplin)
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. (E. Joseph Cossman)
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results. (B. C. Forbes)
Beware of little expenses: A small leak will sink a great ship. (Benjamin Franklin)
Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business. (Sara Genn)
If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business. (Samuel Goldwyn)
Art is a business in which a good many of the deals are made on a handshake without the benefit of lawyerly provisos and the spoken word beats the written agreement nine times out of ten. (Daniel Grant)
The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern. (Hans Haacke)
The business of art doesn't have to compromise your creative integrity. Most artists and designers focus on the creative dimensions of their work but haven't developed a strategic perspective that integrates their creative vision with a viable business plan. (Beth Hawkes)
You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. (Ernest Hemingway)
Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists. (A. Y. Jackson)
The media, the galleries, the collectors – it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine. (Jeff Koons)
A businessman's judgment is no better than his information. (R. P. Lamont)
The business of art does get in the way of painting. (David Leffel)
My career is to paint - that's the best part - that I am able to paint and have complete freedom and control over my art and business. The hardest part is thinking about the business end of everything. I would much rather spend all my time at the easel. (Dana Levin)
Accept the business end of art as a mental break and breather from the creative side – productive time while the broth boils down to sauce... It's plain old-fashioned mental and creative hygiene. (Mary Madsen)
Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both. (Eric Maisel)
He [the businessman] is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. (H. L. Mencken)
Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic sense of the community. (Robert Menzies)
There is now scarcely any outlet for energy in this country except business. (John Stuart Mill)
I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience. (Grandma Moses)
If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work. (Louise Nevelson)
We keep getting up earlier and earlier to get our day started, what with so much computer work necessary in keeping our small art business website interesting, tracking a rough-hewn PR campaign, e-mailing and phone-calling, and researching the market - all before noon! ...that's so the whole day won't end up being spent on 'the premise' of being an artist and not 'the product' of being an artist. (Kevin Obregon)
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. (Pablo Picasso)
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly. (Mario Puzo)
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. (Ayn Rand)
The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist. (Ad Reinhardt)
The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do. (John Ruskin)
You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful. (Iain Sinclair)
In business, contacts are the name of the game. Why, in the art world, are they considered dirty? (Brett Singer)
Love has always been the most important business in my life - I should say the only one. (Stendhal)
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. (Henry David Thoreau)
There is nothing more opposed to poetry, ay, more opposed to life itself, than this incessant business. (Henry David Thoreau)
The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose. (Brian Tracy)
You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships. (Brian Tracy)
Offer your customers a long-term relationship, then do everything possible to build and maintain it. (Brian Tracy)
Think of yourself as a resource to your clients... (Brian Tracy)
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, probably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. (Donald Trump)
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. (Mark Twain)
Artists often make emotional decisions. They can be so eager to be represented by a gallery that they neglect paying due diligence to the terms and conditions of their contract. (Chris Tyrell)
Business is the salt of life. (Voltaire)
Business Art is the step that comes after Art. (Andy Warhol)
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. (Andy Warhol)
The little things we do - or fail to do - often testify louder than the loudest statements of our intentions. (Thomas J. Watson, Jr.)
Good design is good business. (Thomas J. Watson, Sr.)
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
I don't think there is room for "artistic temperament." Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year. (Jack White)
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. (Oscar Wilde)
To build a company you have to have a vision of where you want to go... and you have to have a lot of perseverance, dedication, and I think you have to surround yourself with good people. And, a hand full of credit cards is good too. (Ella Williams)
One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is. (Stuart Pearson Wright)
Life is all business. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
The secret of success in business is creativity. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
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