Art World Quotes

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

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.

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.

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.

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.

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

Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 this world of possibility.

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

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

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

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.

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

How can art make a difference in the world?

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

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

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

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.

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

In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

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

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

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

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

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

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

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

Media over here, coming to ya like a world premiere. Trench coat and my underwear, let's go with this freak show.

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.

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

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.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

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.

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

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