#art world

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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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. ↗

— Rick James

#art #art form #art world #definitely #form

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

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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. ↗

— Steve Martin

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I've been slagged off completely by the art world. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#art world #been #completely #i #off

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

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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

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

— Karlie Kloss

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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. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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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. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#art world #business #controversial #helms #him