Commercial Art Quotes

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  • Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

    Art   Thinking   Honest  
  • Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

    Art   Want   Steps  
    Andy Warhol, Rainer Crone (1987). “Andy Warhol: A Picture Show by the Artist”, Rizzoli International Publications
  • Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

    Jane Dillenberger, Andy Warhol (1998). “The Religious Art of Andy Warhol”, Burns & Oates
  • 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. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

    War   Sleep   Thinking  
    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Having previously graduated from a 2-year commercial arts class, I thought that commercial illustration was the best way to make a living doing art. But the more tattoos that I did, the more I realized what artistic career potential tattooing had and I enjoyed it.

  • Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

    In Observer 1 Mar. 1987
  • People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood.

    Art   Attitude   Thinking  
  • I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

  • They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.

    Girl   Art   Men  
    Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers
  • I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

    Art   Bored   Use  
    Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979) "Studio 54"
  • I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

    Art   Division   Film  
  • I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.

    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I'd rather do anything than make commercial art. I didn't go to school for art. Making art has certain advantages for me but they would never be in commercial direction.

    Art   School   Advantage  
    Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
  • I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

    Beautiful   Art   Nature  
    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

    Art   Age   Landscape  
  • I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

    Funny   Dog   Art  
    Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello (1979). “Andy Warhol's exposures”
  • When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

    Funny   Witty   Caring  
    "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".
  • An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

    Art   War   People  
    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

    Art   Looks   Want  
    Quoted in Free Press (Los Angeles), 17 Mar. 1967
  • Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

  • While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid.

    Art   Maids   Danger  
    Erwin Panofsky, William S. Heckscher (1997). “Three Essays on Style”, p.120, MIT Press
  • Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

    Art   Business   Design  
    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

    Andy Warhol (2015). “America”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Compared with now when almost everyone knows what graphic design is and has some sort of access to the tools to make it, back then, it was really esoteric, you had to quantify it as being 'like commercial art', as one still does in certain circles. It was a strange thing to want to do for a living.

    Art   Circles   Design  
    Source: facingsideways.com
  • Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.

    Art   Thinking   Way  
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