Art Quote by Jerry Saltz

Each year, more people want to become artists.

— Ai Weiwei

Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it has become…

— Michelle Grabner

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…

— Jerry Saltz

The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all artists want…

— Kerry James Marshall

the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.

— Renata Adler

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.

— Bari Weiss

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

— Kehinde Wiley

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

— David Hockney

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to…

— Lola Kirke

Contemporary art will never achieve the audience of football, pop music, or television, so I think we should stop comparing its possible area of…

— Maurizio Cattelan

Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.

— Michelle Grabner