Art World Quotes - Page 4

• There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it.

  Jim Shaw

  Art, War, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.

  Bran Ferren

  Mother, Art, Growing Up

  "Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. March 28, 2006.

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• I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures. There's no reason to abide by them. I don't have any vested interest in it.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Mean, Apology

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

  Michael Leunig

  Art, Done, World

  Michael Leunig (2013). “The Holy Fool: Artworks”, p.9, Allen & Unwin

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• I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.

  Frances Stark

  Art, Editing, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

  Frances Stark

  Art, Responsibility, Luxury

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is interesting to ask why people who come to view art suddenly posture themselves as full of righteousness. It's as if my artwork suddenly lends a higher moral ground to everyone else in the Thai art world.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Art, Views, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think when people struggle with the problem of trying to understand the art world as an idea, they misunderstand it. They think it's a world of visionaries or opportunists. But it also includes people who want to take part in this cultural exercise but don't have the required stuff, they don't have the ideas or the production.

  Liam Gillick

  Art, Struggle, Exercise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still lingering in my head. I realized there were some pieces where I felt that I had to respond to the criticism.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, School, Exercise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students in it [and] one professor, because I feel like in terms of this school, I was one of the few students lucky enough to break into the art industry or the contemporary art world.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, School, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, World, Trends

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The art world loves to throw things out and bring new things in. There's always this new circle of artists entering every five years.

  Rob Pruitt

  Art, World Love, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

  Jenny Holzer

  Art, Always Trying, Different

  Wired Interview, www.wired.com. February 01, 1994.

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• Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

  Ann Macbeth

  Confidence, Art, World

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• An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it

  Matthew Barney

  Art, New York, Interesting

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• Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

  Sarah Thornton

  Art, World, Outsiders

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• I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, World

  Interview with Stephan Collishaw, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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• What I talked about in it was the idea of celebrity, and celebrities being treated like blacks were in the '60s, having no rights, and the fact that people can slander your name. I said that in the toast. And I had to say this in a position where I, from the art world, am marrying Kim. And how we're going to fight to raise the respect level for celebrities so that my daughter can live a more normal life. She didn't choose to be a celebrity. But she is. So I'm going to fight to make sure she has a better life.

  Kanye West

  Daughter, Art, Crazy

  "Kanye West Weighs In On 45-Minute Wedding Toast, Marrying Kim and Being a Blowfish". abcnews.go.com. July 21, 2014.

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• I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.

  Rick James

  Art, Rap, Thinking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 28, 2001.

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• I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that the art world has to join us, women artists, not we join it. When women are in leadership roles and gain rewards and recognition, then perhaps 'we' (women and men) can all work together in art world actions.

  Nancy Spero

  Art, Men, Order

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• When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

  Chuck Close

  Art, Thinking, Air

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• People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.

  Arne Glimcher

  Beautiful, Art, People

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

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• There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, World, Multitudes

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2013.

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• More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about. Never mind the intellectual hypocrisy of this: Those who violate the clublike code are made out to be wrong, immoral, corrupt.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Writing, Hypocrisy

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• Luck plays no role in art world success. It's your own responsibility to create your success, which is a result of making thousands of constant decisions - focused, professional tenacity - day after day of keeping commitments to yourself and to those you make promises to. If you fail, it's all your fault. If you succeed, you deserve all the credit.

  Mark Kostabi

  Success, Art, Commitment

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