Art Quote by Matthew Barney

I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of…

— Joan Larkin

Growing up in the '70s and '80s when my dad had an art gallery, one of the things that frustrated me was the world…

— Jason Blum

I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition…

— Ben Shahn

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

— Richard Phillips

Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or…

— Chloe Sevigny

I was looking at the work of the New York street artists and then discovering Basquiat and Haring after that and seeing how the…

— Robert Del Naja

As a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners, I studied art history. Having never had the chance to visit art galleries, I devoured the…

— Cornelia Parker

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

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I came late to galleries. A lot of people my age started their careers younger, so I was spared seeing that side for a…

— Wade Guyton

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

— Jeff Koons

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop.…

— M.I.A