Art Quote by Tracey Emin

I've been slagged off completely by the art world

— Tracey Emin

I've been in the art world for many years. But the sad fact is that most writers are visually prepubescent. Generally speaking, the literary…

— Richard Grossman

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write…

— Matthew Specktor

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that…

— Shepard Fairey

I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think…

— Douglas Adams

The artistic world is one of high nuance.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I don't really know about the art world.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I don't keep up with the art world. It's out there and if I did that too much, I wouldn't get my own work…

— Michael C. McMillen

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is…

— Banksy

For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.

— Alix Smith

“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I argue--by reason…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.

— Tom Rachman