Pottery was what sandal-wearing, windchime-lovers did. Art is sensitive to areas of visual culture that havent yet been colonised by the art world, and perhaps what they sensed back then was, here was an area that hadnt been fully explored.
When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
The art world doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
In the art world, originality is seen as a precious commodity and its increasingly difficult to get because the territory of art is so trampled.
Contrary to popular opinion, things don’t go stale particularly fast in the art world.
Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.
You never know about the art world because it’s a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it’s not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.
I’m very hard on the art world just being a big business.
I’m the son of a doctor, and the key to working in the art world is to have boundaries of discretion.
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
Success in the art world means getting invitations to exhibit in some great places. I had shown in contemporary art museums in Europe, America, New Zealand and Japan. I’d also been asked to curate shows, and had made work to go with my selections from historical collections.
Life doesn’t just happen; it’s constructed through the history of power. And that’s something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that’s trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.
I wasn’t an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn’t the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.
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.
My dark little secret is that I don’t actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.
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.
My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.
When the art world is done wrong, a reader’s faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
If it weren’t for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
The art world would have you believe that anything can be art. But, of course, there’s actually many things that aren’t art. And we would all recognize it when it isn’t.
I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it’s a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
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.
I’m enamored with the art world.
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn’t want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.
I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor’s-new-clothes sort of way. I think that’s not right and that it’s just because they don’t understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn’t happen without art.
The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about, or even looking at.
In the art world, sentimentality and intimacy and the emotive side of lives are considered very uncool. There’s nervousness around intimacy.
Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
Unfortunately, I haven’t thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized – and it’s really stupid – is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn’t occurred to me.
I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
I celebrated success in the art world, which was quite sudden, and I suddenly had $1,000 a month, when formerly I had nothing, basically. So what we did with this money: we had a baby, we bought a car, and we celebrated by going to Rome, because it would be warmer and better looking.
MTV in general is involved with so many artists – musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and 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.
Poor Georgia O’Keeffe. Death didn’t soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
I literally have my hand in every aspect of the art world that you could imagine. That’s what I’ve always done.
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