Art World Quotes - Page 6

• I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Names, World

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, People, Cache

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I realized that I wasn't naturally born to good taste. I understand what it is, but I am happy to wear bright colors. I do have a few items of black clothing, but I think good taste and doing the same thing over and over again is what the whole art world has become.

  Jim Shaw

  Art, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it.

  Jim Shaw

  Art, War, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.

  Bran Ferren

  Mother, Art, Growing Up

  "Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. March 28, 2006.

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• I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures. There's no reason to abide by them. I don't have any vested interest in it.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Mean, Apology

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

  Michael Leunig

  Art, Done, World

  Michael Leunig (2013). “The Holy Fool: Artworks”, p.9, Allen & Unwin

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• I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.

  Frances Stark

  Art, Editing, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

  Frances Stark

  Art, Responsibility, Luxury

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is interesting to ask why people who come to view art suddenly posture themselves as full of righteousness. It's as if my artwork suddenly lends a higher moral ground to everyone else in the Thai art world.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Art, Views, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think when people struggle with the problem of trying to understand the art world as an idea, they misunderstand it. They think it's a world of visionaries or opportunists. But it also includes people who want to take part in this cultural exercise but don't have the required stuff, they don't have the ideas or the production.

  Liam Gillick

  Art, Struggle, Exercise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still lingering in my head. I realized there were some pieces where I felt that I had to respond to the criticism.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, School, Exercise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students in it [and] one professor, because I feel like in terms of this school, I was one of the few students lucky enough to break into the art industry or the contemporary art world.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, School, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, World, Trends

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.

  John Lennon

  Art, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work. I guess in the art world I'm not exactly a photographer, but I do use photography.

  John Waters

  Photography, Art, Jobs

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• If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, Believe, Dark

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers”, p.46

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• Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Fashion, Art, New York

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• The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.

  Chris Martin

  Religious, Art, Latin

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, Simple, Differences

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, Worry, Horizon

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, New York, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

  Agnes Varda

  Art, Film Critics, Cinema

  Interview with Liza Bear, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• When I was looking at the Russian Constructivists, these agitprop artists actually painted on trains. It was a heavy influence. They were bringing art to the people, to the masses, and breaking it out of the clubbiness of the art world, which is a monolith.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, People, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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