Art world Quote by Legs McNeil

“I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies…

— Charles Bowden

“Art can’t decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it’s a tragic, bloody farce.”

— Don Winslow

“You were an artist. For a moment. Was it too much? Was it the drugs that helped you? The drugs that killed you? Was…

— James Franco

“The hand that stocks the drug stores rules the world.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I wish art was like money in that the more I made, the more interest it developed and plentiful it became. Money makes money,…

— Jarod Kintz

“It would be a tragedy if the profits of the drug trade ­were allowed to corrupt Amer­i­ca and were ­later seen, as was the…

— Anne Case

“The first time I goofed out on Heroin was 1985. It was like sinking into a sea of warm marmalade. And once submerged in…

— U.V. Ray

“The absolute defining moment of my life was the day the drug deal went bad. It started out just like any other day, at…

— Valerie Fries Wade

“Our art is made in cities like New York by people who are running from other places. They feel themselves as misfits who were…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“And as the recession continues and our prospects look bleaker and bleaker, I’m excited. I look to the past to see what our future…

— Sarra Manning

I'm not saying the 1970s was a golden age - I don't believe such a thing exists in art . . . It would…

— Maurizio Cattelan

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business…

— Arne Glimcher