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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.


Francis Vincent “Frank” Zappa, Jr.

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Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.
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BILL GRIFFITH Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
SCOTT IAN People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
RICK WAKEMAN I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu...
GREG KURSTIN Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.
FRANK ZAPPA The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
NINA BLACKWOOD My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
TOM WAITS I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
FRANK ZAPPA Let me be frank even though I'm Vincent and prefer to be called V.
BRIAN CELIO The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars...
IRWIN WINKLER Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have...
FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of...
FRANCIS VINCENT “FRANK” ZAPPA, JR. To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN You see, I thought of myself as making minimalist art like the music of Lamonte Young, or the painti...
RICHARD FOREMAN All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
FRANCIS BACON Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and ...
SOPHIA AMORUSO We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I...
JIMMY CARL BLACK Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own...
PETER WRIGHT More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
K. FLAY Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.
EDGAR A. SHOAFF People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the wee...
CARLO PONTI One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the...
AL YANKOVIC Making money selling manure is better than losing money selling musk
EGYPTIAN PROVERB There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have...
RICK MORANIS Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something.....
SHANNON TAYLOR HODNETT I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank...
JALINA MHYANA Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
ANDY WARHOL People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I&#...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest boo...
LIBBA BRAY The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.
LEON REDBONE Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entre...
JERRY SALTZ How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? -Vince...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
ANDY WARHOL I know they're not selling out. This is something they take very, very seriously,
MIG AYESA Don't confuse selling with art.
JACK TAYLOR There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the rene...
ARNE GLIMCHER Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it&...
EMILE ZOLA Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is...
HAROLD ROSENBERG Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is...
HAROLD ROSENBERG Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art a...
ANDY WARHOL Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art...Making money is art and working is art ...
ANDY WARHOL Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, bu...
STEWART COPELAND Voodoo Entrepreneurship;Is the art of selling unwholesome products,even if it will lead to the untim...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
AMBROSE BIERCE In a fight between you and the world, pick the world
FRANK ZAPPA It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome...
BARBARA KRUGER Microsoft is moving out of selling boxes into selling real, true services.
CHARLENE LI Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Save yourselves!” Percy warned. “It is too late for us!”
Then he gasped and pointed to th...
RICK RIORDAN I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's...
CAMILLE PISSARRO Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.

It's not the medium or the oil or the pri...
SETH GODIN So many artists worry about selling out. But they don't know what that means. Selling out is when yo...
MARIA BROPHY Nothing comes out of nothing but something always comes out of everything.
VIKRANT PARSAI This is very sad but hopefully the start of something good for Frank.
FRANK WARREN Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
STEVE MARTIN Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
HOWARD W. NEWTON Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
ISAAC NEWTON Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke
STEVE MARTIN Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.
ALI SMITH I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutt...
NARCISO RODRIGUEZ Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art schoo...
CAIO FONSECA Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a busine...
WILLA CATHER Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a busine...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER They are not sacrificing their artistic vision. They are selling their art and people are buying it.
ANDREW BRENITS Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.
CARROLL BRYANT The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn t...
EUGENE KENNEDY You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothi...
ANONYMOUS You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothi...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started makin...
MARY LYNN RAJSKUB Education is the art of making man ethical.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Education is the art of making man ethical.
G. W. F. HEGEL Education is the art of making man ethical
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?
MICHAEL MADSEN What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
STEVE MARTIN I asked Frank what he remembered most about working with Jackie. He said, 'Apart from the fact that ...
AUDREY MEADOWS You make experiments and I make theories. Do you know the difference? A theory is something nobody b...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.
NOBU MATSUHISA Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharin...
WILL.I.AM I could imagine it would be sold out very quickly. Even regular Dale Earnhardt Jr. special paint sch...
DAN ANDREWS I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners...
SHIV KHERA ...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of ...
GEORGE SAUNDERS I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... There's an art to making something look good when, on a hanger, it's just a black coat.
DARIA WERBOWY Casey Jr. has based his campaign on a hypocritical line of attack and he should be called out for it...
DAN RONAYNE The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for ...
OSCAR WILDE God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
MARTIN LUTHER Something, but nothing out of anything.
ANDREAS CONSTANDINOU Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.
JAVIER PASCUAL SALCEDO Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible
JAVIER PASCUAL SALCEDO The art is not in making money, but in keeping it
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FRANCIS FRANK DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)
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AHMET ZAPPA I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they h...
AHMET ZAPPA I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA I don't care about a social life.
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textur...
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.
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FRANCIS M. NEVINS JR. Ernestine used to remark, in a tone tinged with envy, that Lill was probably New Jersey's youngest g...
FRANK B. GILBRETH JR. If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
 FRANCIS “Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
 FRANCIS Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
 FRANCIS Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
 FRANCIS Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
 FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
 FRANCIS It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
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