Sells Quotes - Page 31

• If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung the bell, What would you buy?

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes

  Dream, Light, Rose

  'Dream-Pedlary'

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• The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

  Stephen Leacock

  Parenting, Boys, Shakes

  1916 Further Foolishness,'The Lot of the Schoolmaster'.

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• On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Mother, Rip, Chance

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• Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Rain, Love You

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• Success is what sells.

  Andy Warhol

  Commerce

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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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• It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

  Claude Monet

  Lying, Would Be, Asking

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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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, Selling, Used

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• If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

  Herodotus

  Health, Two, Soul

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• The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.

  Jose Marti

  Country, Order, Balance

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• I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily.

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Hair, Principles

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• The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Writing, Years, Criticism

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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, Selling

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• Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

  Dave Hickey

  Beautiful, Art, Seductive

  Dave Hickey (2012). “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

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• Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

  LeRoy Neiman

  People, Style, Trying

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• The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.

  Jack White

  Art, Important, Produce

  Jack White (2013). “Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.

  Jack White

  Art, Emotional, Impact

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

  Jack White

  Art, Selling

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• I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.

  Alexander McQueen

  Believe, Mean, Identity

  "McQueen has designs on Africa for fall/winter 2000", www.cnn.com. May 15, 2000.

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• If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.

  Charles Adams

  Book, Writing, Addiction

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• That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.

  Joseph Roth

  Accessories, Furniture, Found

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• Six Flags has to be a destination, but it's got to be a place that you want to go to every single summer and you don't want to go just for a roller coaster or a new ride. We have to sell the experience and sell the image: clean, safe, friendly and fun. The parks are not necessarily all of those attributes, but they will be.

  Mark Shapiro

  Summer, Fun, Friendly

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• Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?

  Michael Scott

  Artist, Asking Questions, People

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• Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to the Israeli civil administration. If a Palestinian sick person wants to leave a hospital, he goes through the Israeli civil administration. Nobody can leave or enter my constituency without Israeli permission. Israel is, in effect, resuming the occupation.

  Saeb Erekat

  Civilization, Israel, Sick

  "Israel putting services in place in West Bank, Gaza" by Jerrold Kessel, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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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, Selling

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