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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

— Warren Cuccurullo

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Once you start trying to sell creativity, you're always going to run into the problem that the people selling it aren't as creative as the people making it, and the people making it don't know how to talk business with the people trying to sell it.

— Dave Pirner

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

— Julian Schnabel

A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

— Q-Tip

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

— Leo Burnett

I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

— Alexander Wang

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

— Bob Mould

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

— Talib Kweli

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

— Sophia Amoruso

✗Opposing Perspectives

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

— Twyla Tharp

We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.

— Skitch Henderson