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As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.

— John Van Hamersveld

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✓Similar Perspectives

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

— Benjamin Walker

After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.

— Angela Cartwright

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

— Steve Wozniak

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

— Jeffrey Deitch

Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me in a situation of conflict with other stakeholders. The moment I started writing, my creative impulses were finally channelised.

— Ashwin Sanghi

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

— Don Johnson

✗Opposing Perspectives

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

— Jeff Koons

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

— Tom Ford

We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we're supposed to focus on the art.

— Cassandra Clare

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

— Dan Glickman