The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives is in the best sense of the word Grotesque.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

I went into the business for the money and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark I can't help it. It's the truth.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business the business of building entertainment.