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• I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• Spend at least 20-30% of your time marketing. You have to pay for this either way. Either you pay a gallery to do this for you , or you put your time and effort into it. Unless people see the great art you're making, they'll never buy it.

  Cory Trepanier

  Art, People, Effort

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• For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be kicked out on the streets if I didn't sell enough paintings.

  Janet Fish

  Jobs, Long, Goal

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• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Men, Race

  As quoted in "Road Signs for Success" y Jim Whitt, (p. 61), 1993.

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• And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Phones, Careers

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.180, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

  Antonin Scalia

  Teaching, Learning, Character

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• If your organization’s intentions transcend the mere act of selling a product or service, and it is brave enough to expose its heart and soul, people will respond. They will connect. They will like you. They will talk. They will buy.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Heart, Organization, People

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

  Calvin Trillin

  Color, Dry, Natural

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• The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.

  Bill Joy

  Next Steps, Disposable, Next

  "Creating One Huge Computer". Interview with Spencer Reiss, www.wired.com. July 15, 1998.

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• Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole. Therefore, if you want to sell drills, you should advertise information about making holes – NOT information about drills!

  Perry Marshall

  Business, Entrepreneur, Want

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• Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Unrequited Love, Boys, Missing

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• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

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• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Government

  P J O'Rourke (1992). “Parliament of Whores-Open Mark”, Vintage Books USA

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• The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Business, Marketing, Too Much

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Essays and Lectures: Top Essays”, p.75, 谷月社

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• I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

  Paula Rego

  Facts, Thanks, Gallery

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• It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Painting, Difficult, Has Beens

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• We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.

  Michael Korda

  Art, Book, Shoes

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• Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission.

  Claude Monet

  Past, Used, Embarrassed

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• Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Funny, Money, Humor

  "Gideon Planish". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1943.

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• Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Today, Aim

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• I saw a sign on the side of the road in Tennessee once that said 'dirt for sale'... what a great country we live in. DIRT for sale. How would you like to get inside that guy's mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn't he?

  Bill Hicks

  Country, Opportunity, Guy

  "Sane Man". Documentary, Comedy, 1989.

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• As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, People, Buying

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• I don't think the market can keep going up. In the U.S., we see real estate not going up.. houses are selling at lower prices. You can't have anything going up 10 percent to 20 percent to 30 percent indefinitely.

  Eli Broad

  Real, Thinking, House

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• It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

  Eddie Campbell

  Work Out, Want, Too Much

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• Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.

  Jack White

  Art, Sells

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