Art World Quotes - Page 8

• Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Past, World

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• A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, Past

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• Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Ideas, Video

  "Great Artists Steal". nymag.com. May 10, 2009.

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• To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Ideas, Dubious

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• I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.

  Rachael Price

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

  David Hockney

  Art, World, Interest

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, World, Periods

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• The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Melting

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• I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, "That's a huge idea." Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.

  Val Kilmer

  Art, Museums, Average

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

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• While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Stars, Numbers

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