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What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

— Kim Weston

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

— Ann Patchett

I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

— Gallagher

My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to reach everyone. Therefore you had to do as much as you could in the service of something you genuinely believed in. And if you do that and people get upset, well, there you go.

— Dorothy Allison

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

— Banksy

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.

— Howard Finster

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

— Jeff Koons

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

— Margaret Oliphant

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

— Ben Elton

✗Opposing Perspectives

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

— John Dyer

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

— Brian Eno