Make Art Make Money Quotes

“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous.”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

“art is—a sacrifice of one’s time, one’s lifetime, to make others feel something.”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

“The feeling of accomplishment is more real and satisfying than finishing a good meal or looking at one’s accumulated wealth.”[28]”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

“For art to truly affect us, it needs to be, in a sense, “given.”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

“Don’t let your day job take over your life simply because it has a more immediate payoff.”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

“You see, not all of Henson’s projects made money. The Muppet Movie did, but The Muppets Take Manhattan didn’t.”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

“The Dark Crystal, released in 1982, is an artistic masterpiece, which Henson himself described as “a rich fruitcake, full of different ingredients, and every bite you discover something new and delicious.”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

“In many ways, Henson was a slave to his artistic gift—but to no one else. This is the ideal state for an artist.”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

“We intuitively reject art when the cost to make it is less than the cost to buy it.”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

“Don’t listen to your friends who tell you they like leaving their work at work. They don’t have the same dream you do. They want the comfortable thing. You want the great thing.”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

“Play and experimentation loosens our grip on life and allows for more chance luck to surprise us.”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

“What ambitious story could you turn your life into? You can’t start over. You have to use only what’s in the toolbox—and make art out of it.”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

“try to picture yourself becoming more like this—like Sisyphus pushing a rock up a hill only to see it fall back down, knowing you will do this for eternity. Learn to work without hope of reward. That is, learn to push for the sake of pushing.”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

“[Henson:] I didn’t call him a frog. [Interviewer:] Right, he was just Kermit the thing. [Henson:] Yeah, all the characters in those days were abstract because that was part of the principle I was working under.… I still like very much the abstract characters and some of those abstract characters I still feel are slightly more pure.”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

“Though it sounds vulgar, selling something that should be a gift is precisely what prostitution is.”
― Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career