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
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
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'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
One of the points where the art world is at its most metaphysical is in this weird aspect of the power of… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“Photography wasn’t even considered part of the art world until fairly recently. I find it ironic that some people in the world… — Richard Olsenius Copy Share Image
The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
I'm in the art world so I use the art world a lot - or art world people as actors. I've also… — Michel Auder Copy Share Image
I don't think ever before in the whole of human history has so much art been made, bought, and sold. It's a… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“And accordingly, the adolescent sensibility is one that prevails in much of the art world, where the most adolescent of goals, transgression,… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, I was a huge fan of 'The Kids in the Hall.' They were like my boy… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I've never had a mentor personally of any kind. It feels like, generally, in the writing world or the art world, it's… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art… — Thornton Willis Copy Share Image
I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I think when people struggle with the problem of trying to understand the art world as an idea, they misunderstand it. They… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality… — Paddy Johnson Copy Share Image
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… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I think art world will have consolidated, I think it will slow down a little bit. I think it will be less… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The art world is a bit smaller than the music world, and the music world is a bit smaller than the cinema… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there -… — Waldemar Januszczak Copy Share Image
It's unfortunately true that if you mess up a single detail of the art world the whole thing seems false, and most… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
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