Money Quotes

"Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic."

"Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money."

"The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn."

"Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings."

"Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness."

"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need."

"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."

"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."

"Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless."

"It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message."

"I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime."

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

"Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic."

"Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started."

"Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development."

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that the roots of true happiness grow deep in the present moment."