A Quote by Ad Reinhardt

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

Ad Reinhardt

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Artist Businessman Than Uglier

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Ad Reinhardt
American - Artist
December 24, 1913 - August 30, 1967

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

Ad Reinhardt

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

Richard Branson

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

Donny Osmond

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.

John Heartfield

I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of what the company has become.

Phil Knight

Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.

Mark McKinnon

Donald Trump's a businessman, he's a very successful businessman. I think he's a marketing genius.

Doug Ford, Jr.

If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.

Vicente Fox

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

Felix Dennis

I grew up the son of a businessman. And I didn't get into music to be a businessman.

David Berman

To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher.

Lin Yutang

I'm a businessman, and I think there's nothing wrong with being a businessman provided you have the right headspace and do good things with the money you make.

Kim Dotcom

We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help fix America's problems. Well, I am that businessman.