Quotes about Art World

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. Votes: 3

I'm enamored with the art world. Votes: 1

I've been slagged off completely by the art world. Votes: 1

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. Votes: 1

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art. Votes: 1

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world. Votes: 1

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both. Votes: 1

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science. Votes: 1

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Votes: 1

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?' Votes: 1

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. Votes: 1

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open. Votes: 1

Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking. Votes: 1

I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic designer duplexes. Others bemoan art being treated as a commodity. But most of the bemoaning is because the art world is stuffed full of bemoaners, bemoaning about everything. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Through art, you create your own world. Votes: 0

I grew up in the art world. Votes: 0

Art changes people people change the world. Votes: 0

In the art world, Monet means money. Votes: 0

Art is born out of an ill-designed world Votes: 0

I like that the art world isn't regulated. Votes: 0

Art is not meant to change the world. Votes: 0

All I owe the world is my art. Votes: 0

Art is a hot soup in this cold world! Votes: 0

How can art make a difference in the world? Votes: 0

When you create art, the world has to wait. Votes: 0

If the world were clear, art would not exist. Votes: 0

Art would be useless if the world were perfect. Votes: 0

I've been slagged off completely by the art world Votes: 0

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world. Votes: 0

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can. Votes: 0

When art has changed, it's because the world was changing. Votes: 0

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone. Votes: 0

In my world, history comes down to language and art. Votes: 0

Art is a path on which we honour our world. Votes: 0

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world. Votes: 0

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices. Votes: 0

The art of being kind is all the world needs. Votes: 0

I exist in the world and live in my art. Votes: 0

To create a work of art is to create the world. Votes: 0

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world, Votes: 0

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world. Votes: 0

Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world. Votes: 0

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. Votes: 0

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. Votes: 0

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. Votes: 0

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling, Votes: 0

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world. Votes: 0

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself. Votes: 0

I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world. Votes: 0

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it. Votes: 0

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world. Votes: 0

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art. Votes: 0

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business. Votes: 0

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world. Votes: 0

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace. Votes: 0

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged. Votes: 0

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate. Votes: 0

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. Votes: 0

In the world of art, all things are possible.--George from Paradise Kiss Votes: 0

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Votes: 0

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art. Votes: 0

Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. Votes: 0

I love art more than anything in the world except for my family. Votes: 0

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited. Votes: 0

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis. Votes: 0

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few. Votes: 0

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world. Votes: 0

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation. Votes: 0

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction. Votes: 0

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world? Votes: 0

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world. Votes: 0

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood. Votes: 0

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art! Votes: 0

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality. Votes: 0

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception. Votes: 0

The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite. Votes: 0

Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world Votes: 0

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world. Votes: 0

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world. Votes: 0

Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people. Votes: 0

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art. Votes: 0

In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual. Votes: 0

The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art. Votes: 0

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. Votes: 0

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently. Votes: 0

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience. Votes: 0

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites, Votes: 0

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. Votes: 0

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up. Votes: 0

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression. Votes: 0

The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it. Votes: 0

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. Votes: 0

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like. Votes: 0

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world. Votes: 0

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine Votes: 0

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.' Votes: 0

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. Votes: 0

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response. Votes: 0

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. Votes: 0

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough. Votes: 0

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world. Votes: 0

I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world. Votes: 0

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives? Votes: 0

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour? Votes: 0

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. Votes: 0

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine Votes: 0

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art. Votes: 0

Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies. Votes: 0

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again. Votes: 0

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art. Votes: 0

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is. Votes: 0

One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world. Votes: 0

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art. Votes: 0

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art. Votes: 0

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model... Votes: 0

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness? Votes: 0

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me. Votes: 0

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding. Votes: 0

Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war. Votes: 0

The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism. Votes: 0

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art. Votes: 0

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them. Votes: 0

With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live. Votes: 0

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. Votes: 0

The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world. Votes: 0

We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion. Votes: 0

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. Votes: 0

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art. Votes: 0

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. Votes: 0

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Votes: 0

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. Votes: 0

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me, Votes: 0

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. Votes: 0

Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense. Votes: 0

Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money. Votes: 0

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free. Votes: 0

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me. Votes: 0

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. Votes: 0

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be. Votes: 0

Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be. Votes: 0

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world Votes: 0

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. Votes: 0

Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes. Votes: 0

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time. Votes: 0

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses Votes: 0

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place. Votes: 0

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. Votes: 0

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives. Votes: 0

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there. Votes: 0

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world. Votes: 0

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world. Votes: 0

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling. Votes: 0

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court. Votes: 0

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art. Votes: 0

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement. Votes: 0

There should be a harmonious blend of religion, philosophy and art for man to live healthily in the world. Votes: 0

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world. Votes: 0

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. Votes: 0

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected. Votes: 0

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world. Votes: 0

Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move. Votes: 0

Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another. Votes: 0

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in. Votes: 0

The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world. Votes: 0

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art. Votes: 0

It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend. Votes: 0

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. Votes: 0

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated? Votes: 0

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in. Votes: 0

Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one. Votes: 0

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part. Votes: 0

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. Votes: 0

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind. Votes: 0

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. Votes: 0

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art. Votes: 0

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. Votes: 0

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth. Votes: 0

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. Votes: 0

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. Votes: 0

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist. Votes: 0

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. Votes: 0

I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material. Votes: 0

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about. Votes: 0

My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible! Votes: 0

(Art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint. Votes: 0

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind. Votes: 0

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now. Votes: 0

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port. Votes: 0

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it. Votes: 0

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional. Votes: 0

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. Votes: 0

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting. Votes: 0

Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story. Votes: 0

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. Votes: 0

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate. Votes: 0

Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. Votes: 0

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation. Votes: 0

I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world. Votes: 0

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory . Votes: 0

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience. Votes: 0

The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better. Votes: 0

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. Votes: 0

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded. Votes: 0

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world. Votes: 0

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms. Votes: 0

From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance. Votes: 0

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. Votes: 0

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world. Votes: 0

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world. Votes: 0

I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school. Votes: 0

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world. Votes: 0

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it. Votes: 0

A lot of people want to keep country music in the minority of people. But it belongs to the world. It's art. Votes: 0

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world. Votes: 0

I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists. Votes: 0

It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing. Votes: 0

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can"¦. The art world is high school with money. Votes: 0

Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows! Votes: 0

It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country....and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world. Votes: 0

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. Votes: 0

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art. Votes: 0

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy." Votes: 0

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. Votes: 0

Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed. Votes: 0

I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world. Votes: 0

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions. Votes: 0

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. Votes: 0

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible. Votes: 0

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art. Votes: 0

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art. Votes: 0

I would love to collect [art] at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny. Votes: 0

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world. Votes: 0

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art. Votes: 0

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. Votes: 0

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it. Votes: 0

The future is female, so women are invited, as they do, to take responsability in the world of politics, in the economics, in art Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while. Votes: 0

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence. Votes: 0

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. Votes: 0

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal. Votes: 0

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle. Votes: 0

The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art. Votes: 0

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture. Votes: 0

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture. Votes: 0

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible. Votes: 0

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world. Votes: 0

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world. Votes: 0

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man. Votes: 0

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. Votes: 0

I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world. Votes: 0

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life. Votes: 0

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it. Votes: 0

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art. Votes: 0

I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep and you draw. Votes: 0

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art. Votes: 0

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry. Votes: 0

The world is my canvas, and my ponytail is my paintbrush. Helen Keller probably had a ponytail too, though my art has more vision. Barely. Votes: 0

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever. Votes: 0

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If science took my IQ and spread it evenly among the world's population, like mental mayonnaise, we'd have more art, less war, and higher cholesterol. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. Votes: 0

It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you. Votes: 0

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse. Votes: 0

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. Votes: 0

I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset....A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that. Votes: 0

Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments. Votes: 0

In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee. Votes: 0

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world. Votes: 0

As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world. Votes: 0

The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge. Votes: 0

Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy. Votes: 0

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song. Votes: 0

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds. Votes: 0

No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it. Votes: 0

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm. Votes: 0

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling. Votes: 0

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. Votes: 0

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see. Votes: 0

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise. Votes: 0

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. Votes: 0

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system. Votes: 0

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone. Votes: 0

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly. Votes: 0

I don't pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that's the whole world Votes: 0

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic. Votes: 0

I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world. Votes: 0

The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile. Votes: 0

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? Votes: 0

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it Votes: 0

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now. Votes: 0

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Votes: 0

I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that information is a website away. Votes: 0

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms. Votes: 0

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world. Votes: 0

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art. Votes: 0

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films. Votes: 0

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see. Votes: 0

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery. Votes: 0

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos"¦ to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. Votes: 0

I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world. Votes: 0

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep. Votes: 0

Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else. Votes: 0

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. Votes: 0

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art. Votes: 0

I feel like there's a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I'm completely in the world of possibility. Votes: 0

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens. Votes: 0

Fashion is not separate from art. It is inextricably woven into how we open ourselves to the world and articulates the exchanges of power both real and imagined. Votes: 0

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Votes: 0

The gift art gives us is that instead of seeing only our own world, we see into other times, which offers a window into other cultures and sensibilities. Votes: 0

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world. Votes: 0

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum. Votes: 0

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living. Votes: 0

I will be patient, kind, faithful and true To a man who loves music a man who loves art Respect's the spirit world and thinks with his heart Votes: 0

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art. Votes: 0

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world. Votes: 0

The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world. Votes: 0

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. Votes: 0

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world. Votes: 0

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world. Votes: 0

I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it. Votes: 0

I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting. Votes: 0

On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. Votes: 0

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still. Votes: 0

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form. Votes: 0

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him. Votes: 0

Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Dance removes you from this construct of the world that you have, and it's a conversation that you're having with people. That's how dance grew, as an art form. Votes: 0

One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that. Votes: 0

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. Votes: 0

I need to be working with the art world in N.Y.C. as much as I need to be working in my studios in Chicago and rural Wisconsin. Votes: 0

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal. Votes: 0

I don't want to make plop art "” sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture. Votes: 0

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world. Votes: 0

All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality, and innocence (idiocy). Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles. Votes: 0

There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it. Votes: 0

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him. Votes: 0

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?' Votes: 0

It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Living is art.Breathing and heart beating is music.Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.Life is the most intense art of all. Votes: 0

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world. Votes: 0

The only way to survive is to intently focus on how the art world operates. Once you understand how things work, you can find a solution to the problems you are facing. Votes: 0

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it. Votes: 0

The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system. Votes: 0

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it. Votes: 0

More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up! Votes: 0

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic that pressures art to incorporate the quotient of risk. Votes: 0

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in the world! Votes: 0

I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want. Votes: 0

I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about. Votes: 0

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising. Votes: 0

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; film was not. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0