Art World Quotes - Page 2

• Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual analysis or critical thinking. Althought the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make works that "looks like art" and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. (...) Originality is not always rewarded, but some people take real risks and innovate, which gives a raison d'être to the rest

  Sarah Thornton

  Art, Real, Thinking

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• 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 a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.

  Banksy

  Art, Taken, Home

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• As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

  Arne Glimcher

  Art, War, Paris

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Arne Glimcher

  Art, World, Wonderful

  Interview with Luning Wang, picassoandthesinglegirl.com. November 2016.

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• Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, School, Envy

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• I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Successful, World

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, World, Talent

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• I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

  Heath Ledger

  Art, Thinking, Alcohol

  "Heath Ledger on 'Candy'". Interview With Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. November 29, 2006.

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• Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those influences are present and at what time and what really serves the deeper process that is constantly running like a stream underground. Influence is incessant. Influence is a fact. But, carry a big shovel and dig constantly to clear away all the unessentials so that the origins of mystery and the poetic force of life can get into and inspire the work.

  Paul Caponigro

  Running, Art, Inspire

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• It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.

  Philip Auslander

  Art, Men, Age

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• While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.

  Louise Slaughter

  Art, Jobs, Creating

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• I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Years, World

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• The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

  Marco Brambilla

  Fashion, Art, Get Better

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• If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other parts of the 'consciousness industry,' it is minuscule. But if you look at what happens in this small sector, how it rubs off on the rest of it, it is astonishing.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, Money, Looks

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• I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, New York, Thinking

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• I don't like to trash talk... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.

  Uriah Hall

  Art, Mma, World

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• The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

  Natalie Jeremijenko

  Art, World, Littles

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• With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Art, Discovery, Color

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• I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

  Claudia Lee

  Art, Writing, Acting

  "Nice to Meet You: Hart of Dixie Star and Country-Rap Artist, Claudia Lee!". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. July 2, 2012.

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• The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Mass Culture, Sound

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• The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.

  Armand Hammer

  Art, Fighting, Relaxation

  1987 Hammer, Witness to History, his autobiography.

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• The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Museums, Ongoing

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.283, University of Chicago Press

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• When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness are threats to the status quo. It is an artist's job to be an 'outlaw.

  Laurence Gartel

  Art, Jobs, Individuality

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• Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.

  Paul Russo

  Art, Skills, Rejection

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• The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?

  Abe Ajay

  Fashion, Art, Blow

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