Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Within the next five years, I predict major changes in the art world and it will look nothing like it did ten… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
I think what art is always doing is making us see the world so differently, and I don't mean just colors and… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
I see lies everywhere - switch on the television, it's lies. Everything is lies. In the art world or science community, we… — Paola Pivi Copy Share Image
The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I'm not really well educated - other than an art survey course at the High School of Art and Design in New… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
I think when you're collecting, the best advice is just 'see see see see.' The more you get used to the nuances… — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
If you want to be successful in the art world you've got to look to the art world; you don't make it… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
When I was looking at the Russian Constructivists, these agitprop artists actually painted on trains. It was a heavy influence. They were… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it.… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
Appreciation is not an otherworldly or good treat which we may take or push away as per the minute's impulses, and in… — Noel 'Razor' Smith Copy Share Image
The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems,… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age.… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Success in the art world means getting invitations to exhibit in some great places. I had shown in contemporary art museums in… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
Hank Willis Thomas is great. He's the one who "discovered" my work and saw something that I didn't see. He's still constantly… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
![“[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since a picture was what a gallery or museum was meant to hold (all the while, of course, I was claiming that I was denying the standard, rejecting it...)” quote by Vito Acconci](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ee2/vito-acconci-13895_art_photography-was-necessary-to-make-my-pla_205941.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Kalup Linzy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/694/kalup-linzy-20386_art_i-was-trying-to-release-emotions-exercis_170433.jpg)
![“I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.” quote by Paul Outerbridge](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9cf/paul-outerbridge-45132_art_i-had-a-growing-feeling-that-most-of-the_2193253.jpg)
