I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Attitude is more important than the past than education than money than circumstances than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance giftedness or skill.

When you ain't got no money you gotta get an attitude.

I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

I don't need the money dear. I work for art.

When museums are built these days architects directors and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties eat dinner wine-and-dine donors. Sure these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

I love art dealers. In some ways they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is create their own aesthetic universes support artists employ people and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still over the past decade its audience has hugely grown and that's irked those outside the art world who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992 an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling money was scarce and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings performance art John Cage Joseph Beuys and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile a new art world was coming into being.

When money and hype recede from the art world one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that since almost no one will be selling art artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.

The last time money left the art world intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries and a few of them have become the best in the world.

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.

Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.

The forties seventies and the nineties when money was scarce were great periods when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

It was Public Art defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

The sinews of art and literature like those of war are money.

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.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

One does not need buildings money power or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing and that is the place to train.