Art World Quotes - Page 3

• Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

  Kara Ross

  Art, Speaks Out, Careers

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• I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art that drives the art world and not the other way around. Artists and other people of intelligence have the power to bring deeper content to our culture.

  Thornton Willis

  Art, Believe, People

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• It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.

  Invader

  Art, Attention, World

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• The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We are really devastated and very impotent right now. A photographer just working for an advertising company has a platform to be much more politically effective in the world than an artist.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Taken, Tools

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• The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, People, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 world is provincial when it comes to matters of art. And it always has been.

  Richard Grossman

  Art, Years, World

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, Thinking, Media

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• No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the art world will not throw billions of dollars at photography the way it has at painting; and that is what makes it an exciting medium.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Photography, Art, Dollars

  David Wojnarowicz (2017). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.127, Canongate Books

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• [Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since a picture was what a gallery or museum was meant to hold (all the while, of course, I was claiming that I was denying the standard, rejecting it...)

  Vito Acconci

  Photography, Art, Museums

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• A lot of people in the art world hate to use the word "Photoshop", like it's cheating or easy or something. I say bollocks to that - for me, it's my tool, my paintbrush if you like, and lets me create my own visual language.

  Idris Khan

  Cheating, Art, Hate

  "'A lot of art people hate Photoshop... bollocks to that'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2007.

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• I think what art is always doing is making us see the world so differently, and I don't mean just colors and light, but re-thinking relationships, spatial relationships, psychological relationships ... those who gravitate to the art world actually want to be puzzled.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• I am suspicious and disillusioned about the uses and misuses of photography in the art world, the press, and the world of entertainment. And to make things more complicated, I don't think that the general public is well educated regarding images. Generally we are taught how to read, but we are not taught how to look.

  Alfredo Jaar

  Photography, Art, Thinking

  "The Aesthetics of Witnessing: A Conversation with Alfredo Jaar". Art Journal Interview with Patricia C. Philips, www.publicart.ie. 2005.

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• Because there's such a long tradition of the arts being very prominent and very varied in Cuban culture and society, people do use the art world as a space for critical reflection and people look to it for that.

  Rachael Price

  Art, Reflection, Space

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.

  Betty Dodson

  Art, Dollars, Pieces

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.

  Betty Dodson

  Art, World, Corporations

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• One of the points where the art world is at its most metaphysical is in this weird aspect of the power of the expert. There are experts who claim they cannot be fooled because they have an inner connection to an artist and can feel whether something is genuine or fake. I've heard experts say, on panels: When it comes to my period, or my painters, I cannot be fooled. And of course that's completely ridiculous.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Art, Fake, Connections

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic that pressures art to incorporate the quotient of risk.

  Rachel Kushner

  Art, Risk, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's not my job at the Institute to teach where people are in the art world - in the world of art historically. My job is to teach the creative process and let the chips fall where they may and people can then come along and form their opinions as to whether you fall into this genre or that genre.

  Lawrence Jordan

  Art, Jobs, Fall

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, Believe, Dark

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers”, p.46

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• I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work. I guess in the art world I'm not exactly a photographer, but I do use photography.

  John Waters

  Photography, Art, Jobs

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• Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.

  John Lennon

  Art, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

  Val Kilmer

  Art, Dollars, World

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Names, World

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, People, Cache

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I realized that I wasn't naturally born to good taste. I understand what it is, but I am happy to wear bright colors. I do have a few items of black clothing, but I think good taste and doing the same thing over and over again is what the whole art world has become.

  Jim Shaw

  Art, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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