Art World Quotes - Page 5

• Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women - women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in - older women and younger men.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Hurt, Men

  "Bourgeois". Book by Louise Bourgeois and ‎Donald Burton Kuspit (p. 76), 1988.

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• I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.

  Drake

  Art, Rap, Thinking

  "Drake: High Times at the YOLO Estate" by Jonah Weiner, www.rollingstone.com. February 13, 2014.

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• Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

  Jerry Saltz

  Running, Art, Lying

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• Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Important

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• The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Cards, Credit

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• The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Color, Skills

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• 'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Ethos, Crumbling

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• When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Moving, Space

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• I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Art, Doing What You Love, Track

  "Kaleidoscope: The Many Shades of Jada, from TV Nurse to Karate Kid's Mom". Interview with Kam Williams, communityjournal.net. June 14, 2010.

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• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Art, Morning, New York

  "When Sam Taylor-Wood met Yoko Ono". Interview With Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

  Kanye West

  Fashion, Art, Creativity

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• When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

  John Cage

  Art, Past, Ideas

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• Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Art, Stealing Things, World

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• I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Real, Believe

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• It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country....and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world.

  Louis Comfort Tiffany

  Country, Art, Wish

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• The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance.

  John Walford

  Art, Creativity, Irrelevance

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• I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

  Duane Michals

  Art, World, Just Being

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• The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

  China Chow

  Art, Growing Up, World

  "China Chow Talks Season 2 Of ‘Work Of Art’". Interview with Huffingtonpost, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.

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• From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Italian, World

  Interview with Kimberly Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2010.

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• In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Self, Trying

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• One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Ideas, Becoming Better

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• The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

  Caio Fonseca

  Art, World, Painting

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• What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

  Urs Fischer

  Art, World, Want

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• MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

  Karlie Kloss

  Fashion, Art, Mtv

  "'House of Style' hosts Karlie Kloss and Joan Smalls on their new gigs". Interview with Sandra Gonzalez, www.ew.com. September 6, 2012.

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• In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

  Edward de Bono

  Art, Creativity, Emotional

  Edward De Bono (2010). “Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step”, p.5, Harper Collins

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