Best Art World Sayings

104 Art World quotes by 70 unique authors

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. — Brian Eno
Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very… — David Hockney
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 bigger than the… — Val Kilmer
I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind… — Steve Martin
I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art. — Nas
The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time. — Yoko Ono
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into… — Camille Paglia
The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young… — Daniel Radcliffe
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world. — Jerry Saltz
I like that the art world isn't regulated. — Jerry Saltz
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included. — Jerry Saltz
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. — Jerry Saltz
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be… — Jerry Saltz
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. — Jerry Saltz
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. — Jerry Saltz
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting. — Jerry Saltz
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings… — Jerry Saltz
While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring.… — Jerry Saltz
A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being… — Jerry Saltz
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the… — Jerry Saltz
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop… — Jerry Saltz
Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has… — Jerry Saltz
I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their… — Jerry Saltz
Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show… — Jerry Saltz
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… — Jerry Saltz

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