Art World Quotes
The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind.
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.
Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.
Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.
Foster and polish the warrior spirit while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light.
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.
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.
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.
I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.
Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.
It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country....and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world.
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.
As the Trump presidency goes on, there will be a transcendency of power and culture and vision from the music scene, the art world that will find a voice and give hope to us all.
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.
The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.
A lot of people want to keep country music in the minority of people. But it belongs to the world. It's art.
I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.
I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.
A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.
I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world inside out. And this starts right now.
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
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.
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.