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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

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

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.