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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. -- Paul Russo
I'm enamored with the art world. -- Steve Martin
I've been slagged off completely by the art world. -- Tracey Emin
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. -- Jerry Saltz
I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art. -- Nas
MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world. -- Karlie Kloss
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both. -- Ben Hecht
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science. -- Natalie Jeremijenko
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. -- Tom Rachman
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. -- Jerry Saltz
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. -- James Franco
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. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
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. -- Jerry Saltz
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. -- Jerry Saltz
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. -- Jerry Saltz
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. -- Jerry Saltz
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. -- Michael Leunig
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?' -- Kanye West
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. -- Camille Paglia
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. -- Daniel Radcliffe
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. -- Matthew Barney
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. -- Jerry Saltz
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. -- Jerry Saltz
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. -- Jerry Saltz
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. -- Jerry Saltz
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. -- Charles Saatchi
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. -- Jerry Saltz
Through art, you create your own world. -- Daphne Guinness
I grew up in the art world. -- Cary Elwes
Art changes people people change the world. -- John Butler
In the art world, Monet means money. -- Fiona Bruce
Art is born out of an ill-designed world -- Andrei Tarkovsky
I like that the art world isn't regulated. -- Jerry Saltz
Art is not meant to change the world. -- JR
All I owe the world is my art. -- Sherman Alexie
Art is a hot soup in this cold world! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
How can art make a difference in the world? -- Sandra Cisneros
When you create art, the world has to wait. -- Will Smith
If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus
Art would be useless if the world were perfect. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
I've been slagged off completely by the art world -- Tracey Emin
The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world. -- Robert Crumb
Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can. -- JR
When art has changed, it's because the world was changing. -- Corita Kent
The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone. -- Michael Craig-Martin
In my world, history comes down to language and art. -- Theodore Bikel
Art is a path on which we honour our world. -- Robert Genn
Music and art are the guiding lights of the world. -- Pablo Picasso
In the world of Art there are no wrong choices. -- Herbie Hancock
The art of being kind is all the world needs. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I exist in the world and live in my art. -- Joseph Curiale
To create a work of art is to create the world. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world, -- Dana Gioia
Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world. -- Malcolm Mclaren
Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world. -- Malcolm Mclaren
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. -- Rene Magritte
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. -- Ellen Key
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. -- George Bernard Shaw
The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling, -- Cecil B. DeMille
The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world. -- Caio Fonseca
The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world. -- Henry Ford
Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it. -- Stanislaw Lem
I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world. -- Marc Jacobs
The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art. -- Charles Simic
I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business. -- Duane Michals
Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world. -- Guy Davenport
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace. -- Hermann Hesse
Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged. -- Laurie Anderson
If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate. -- Martin Mull
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
In the world of art, all things are possible.--George from Paradise Kiss -- Ai Yazawa
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. -- Oscar Wilde
Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art. -- Seth
Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I love art more than anything in the world except for my family. -- Sylvester Stallone
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited. -- William Saroyan
The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis. -- Andre Malraux
Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few. -- Lucinda Williams
Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world. -- Roy Lichtenstein
The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation. -- Joseph Conrad
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction. -- C. J. Cherryh
Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world? -- Martin Firrell
The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world. -- Bruce Lee
MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood. -- Sarah Schulman
It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art! -- Amanda Palmer
Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality. -- Sergei Diaghilev
Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception. -- Jeremy Begbie
The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite. -- L. E. J. Brouwer
Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world -- Shah Rukh Khan
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world. -- Jerry Saltz
Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world. -- Jack London
Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people. -- Nastia Liukin
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art. -- Theodor Adorno
In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual. -- Francis Schaeffer
The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art. -- Teller
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. -- Andre Maurois
Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently. -- Tania Bruguera
I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience. -- Jenny Holzer
The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites, -- Eli Siegel
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. -- Jerry Saltz
The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up. -- China Chow
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression. -- Edward de Bono
The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. -- Billy Sunday
Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like. -- Jerry Saltz
Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world. -- Tatyana Tolstaya
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.' -- Salvador Dali
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. -- Leonardo da Vinci
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response. -- Allan Kaprow
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough. -- Virginia Woolf
I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world. -- Nicole Kidman
I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world. -- Walead Beshty
Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives? -- JR
Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour? -- John Walford
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. -- Alain de Botton
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art. -- Penn Jillette

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