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Quotes About Expression

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don't say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.
~ Kate Zambreno
Real artists offer authenticity, not just money.
~ Rhymefest
Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
~ Rita Mae Brown
For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.
~ Rob Reiner
Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.
~ Robert Graves
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Music is magic. Music does s**t that money could never do. Music unites nations and stops wars.
~ Sean Garrett
If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.
~ Sonny Terry
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
~ Ted Dekker
I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.
~ Tom Six
I ain't calling me God. I'm just doing my part on where I think hip hop should go. I think hip hop should be about more money, crazier sounds, different beats.
~ Tupac Shakur
I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.
~ Vin Diesel
Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.
~ William Blake
The say money talks, but I've seen it sing, and even seen it dance.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
There ain't no money in poetry, that's what keeps the poet free. I've had all the freedom I can stand.
~ Guy Clark
There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.
~ Robert Graves
People write for ego gratification, not money.
~ Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore
Don't Become An Artist, Actor, Muscian, Producer or Writer, Etc, For Only The Money. You May Be Very Dissapointed.
~ Chris Mentillo
A poem in the heart is worthmore than a million dollarsin the bank account.
~ Sanober Khan
Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
This was never about the money... Don't you understand? A world without good art is a far more dangerous place than one you don't get paid for making it in.
~ Dimitri Zaik, Ink Bleeder
It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
~ Carla H. Krueger
Money talks, I record.
~ Toba Beta