Art quotes

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

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.

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

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

I hate art auctions.

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.

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

Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

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

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

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

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.