Art World Quotes

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

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.

I hate when dealers talk to me. I love dealers - they're some of our favorite people in the art world. But I hate if they do a sales pitch on me. I can't stand it.

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.

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

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authentic in that way.

Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

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

Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

How am I placing myself in the world of other people around me? For me, I feel that I am not really alone, that others can feel it too. I see art in this way.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it.

The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Art-making is an extension of the kind of spiritual process that shamans unfold in order to demonstrate the connectedness of the world beyond reality.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

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

One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.

Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.

Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me on a daily basis.

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend.

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.

I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries.

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.