Art World Quotes - Page 2

• Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Art, Stealing Things, World

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• I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Real, Believe

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• I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.

  Drake

  Art, Rap, Thinking

  "Drake: High Times at the YOLO Estate" by Jonah Weiner, www.rollingstone.com. February 13, 2014.

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• Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women - women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in - older women and younger men.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Hurt, Men

  "Bourgeois". Book by Louise Bourgeois and ‎Donald Burton Kuspit (p. 76), 1988.

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• I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

  Jenny Holzer

  Art, Always Trying, Different

  Wired Interview, www.wired.com. February 01, 1994.

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• Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

  Sarah Thornton

  Art, World, Outsiders

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• An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it

  Matthew Barney

  Art, New York, Interesting

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• The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Color, Skills

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• The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Cards, Credit

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• More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about. Never mind the intellectual hypocrisy of this: Those who violate the clublike code are made out to be wrong, immoral, corrupt.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Writing, Hypocrisy

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• I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.

  Rick James

  Art, Rap, Thinking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 28, 2001.

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• The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality more pure. There's nothing wrong with this, but it stands at odds with a contemporary art world that looks to the future for inspiration. We value complexity and innovation, and distrust saccharine pictures of the past.

  Paddy Johnson

  Art, Inspiration, Past

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• I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that the art world has to join us, women artists, not we join it. When women are in leadership roles and gain rewards and recognition, then perhaps 'we' (women and men) can all work together in art world actions.

  Nancy Spero

  Art, Men, Order

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• When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

  Chuck Close

  Art, Thinking, Air

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• People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.

  Arne Glimcher

  Beautiful, Art, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, World, Multitudes

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2013.

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• Luck plays no role in art world success. It's your own responsibility to create your success, which is a result of making thousands of constant decisions - focused, professional tenacity - day after day of keeping commitments to yourself and to those you make promises to. If you fail, it's all your fault. If you succeed, you deserve all the credit.

  Mark Kostabi

  Success, Art, Commitment

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• It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country....and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world.

  Louis Comfort Tiffany

  Country, Art, Wish

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• The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

  Ben Hecht

  Art, World, Mass

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• In the art world, Monet means money.

  Fiona Bruce

  Art, Mean, World

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• I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Thinking, World

  "Photography, Life, and Beauty". "Art21" Interview, art21.org.

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• The art world loves to throw things out and bring new things in. There's always this new circle of artists entering every five years.

  Rob Pruitt

  Art, World Love, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

  Jerry Saltz

  Running, Art, Lying

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• Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Important

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