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• One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Ideas, Becoming Better

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• The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

  Caio Fonseca

  Art, World, Painting

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• What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

  Urs Fischer

  Art, World, Want

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• In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

  Edward de Bono

  Art, Creativity, Emotional

  Edward De Bono (2010). “Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Art, New York, School

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• I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.

  Rachel Kushner

  Art, People, World

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• I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Goes On, World

  Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. April 01, 2000.

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• The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, People

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• Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

  John Walford

  Christian, Art, Culture

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• Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on several grounds work that is in any way explicitly Christian in content and also shrugs off as naive anything that has the semblance of hope or optimism in outlook.

  John Walford

  Christian, Art, Lying

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• The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance.

  John Walford

  Art, Creativity, Irrelevance

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• MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

  Karlie Kloss

  Fashion, Art, Mtv

  "'House of Style' hosts Karlie Kloss and Joan Smalls on their new gigs". Interview with Sandra Gonzalez, www.ew.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art that drives the art world and not the other way around. Artists and other people of intelligence have the power to bring deeper content to our culture.

  Thornton Willis

  Art, Believe, People

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• While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.

  Louise Slaughter

  Art, Jobs, Creating

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• The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

  Marco Brambilla

  Fashion, Art, Get Better

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• I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Years, World

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• If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other parts of the 'consciousness industry,' it is minuscule. But if you look at what happens in this small sector, how it rubs off on the rest of it, it is astonishing.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, Money, Looks

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• I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, New York, Thinking

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• I don't like to trash talk... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.

  Uriah Hall

  Art, Mma, World

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• The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

  Natalie Jeremijenko

  Art, World, Littles

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• With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Art, Discovery, Color

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• I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

  Claudia Lee

  Art, Writing, Acting

  "Nice to Meet You: Hart of Dixie Star and Country-Rap Artist, Claudia Lee!". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. July 2, 2012.

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• The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Mass Culture, Sound

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• The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.

  Armand Hammer

  Art, Fighting, Relaxation

  1987 Hammer, Witness to History, his autobiography.

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• The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Museums, Ongoing

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.283, University of Chicago Press

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