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- All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art...Skill has nothing to…
- Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so…
- More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about.…
- After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They're more interested in the possible than the probable, the private…
- All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.
- Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.…
- While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators…
- Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
- Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
- Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.
- Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.
- Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
- These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go…
- I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices…
- Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall…
- Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the…
- Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what…
- Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.
- Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists,…
- Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces…
- I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums, and so forth…
- 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…
- I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists,…
- I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the…
- In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time…
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- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu
- A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. — Honore de Balzac
- We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it. — John Banville
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P T Barnum
- Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok
- Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger
- The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end… — Adele
- To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously… — Arnold Bennett
- I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't… — Bono
- The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were… — Bono