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Next Page »J.S.G. Boggs: Art & Medium of Exchange
on Tuesday, June 9, 2015J.S.G. Boggs Money Quotation saying currency is art, as well as a representation of value which is universally accepted as a medium of exchange. J.S.G. Boggs said:
“One of the reasons money fascinates me as an image is that money is so many different things all at the same time. It’s a work of art, it’s a medium of exchange, it’s a representation. In short, it’s a representational work of art that represents many different things” — J.S.G. Boggs
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Jules Renard: Earning Nothing as Writer
on Monday, September 29, 2014Jules Renard Money Quotation saying that working as a writer means you are not expected to have any earnings. Jules Renard said:
“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money” — Jules Renard
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O. Henry: Shadows of Words in Hunger
on Friday, September 26, 2014O. Henry Money Quotation saying the finer things in life cannot be appreciated by those without basic necessities and food. O. Henry said:
“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving” — O. Henry
Gregg Allman on Playing for Rent
on Sunday, June 22, 2014Gregg Allman Money Quotation saying Successful musicians struggle to pay the rent early in their careers. Gregg Allman said:
“I didn’t think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music” — Gregg Allman
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Collage Artist Mark Wagner on Money as Art
on Saturday, May 17, 2014Below are comments made by Paper Collage Artist Mark Wagner about his money collage art, work that makes us look more closely at currency. The video directly below has none of the quotes, but features Wagner talking to CBS Sunday Morning about his art. The quotes come from the second video on the page below from Avant Garde Diaries, titled “Money is Material”:
“The taboo around destroying a dollar bill makes people pay more attention to what … I’m doing than if I was using any other piece of paper”
“The object in question is essentially just a piece of paper. Money and currency don’t actually exist in the real world, they’re just something that we’ve made up”
“Sometimes I stop thinking of it as a dollar bill, I just think about it as materials. I have to remind myself sometimes that it’s worth money”
“It’s basically the most popular piece of paper on the planet”
“The dollar bill is ostensibly the most successful publication ever printed” – Mark Wagner
Mark Wagner: Destroy Dollar Bills
on Tuesday, January 21, 2014Mark Wagner Money Quotation saying the value of his paper collage art is altered by the currency paper used to create it. Mark Wagner said:
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“The taboo around destroying a dollar bill makes people pay more attention to what … I’m doing than if I was using any other piece of paper” — Mark Wagner
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Mark Wagner on Money Existence
on Sunday, January 19, 2014Mark Wagner Money Quotation saying that use of money in collage art makes us examine the real value of currency. Mark Wagner said:
“The object in question is essentially just a piece of paper. Money and currency don’t actually exist in the real world, they’re just something that we’ve made up” — Mark Wagner
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Tim Kreider on Free of Charge Work
on Saturday, January 11, 2014Tim Kreider Money Quotation saying in a New York Times editorial that starving artists accept work without pay for ‘exposure’ and stop anyone from being paid what they are worth. Tim Kreider said:
“There is a bottomless supply of ambitious young artists … so thrilled at the prospect of publication … happy to do it free” — Tim Kreider
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