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I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

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'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

Generally, what I try to do is always have a money gig and an art gig.