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When art wins, everyone wins.
Art is a self-replicating force.
Energy and art go where they will.
Don't talk. I can't hear myself see.
I like that the art world isn't regulated.
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.
The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter.
All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.
Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.
Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.
Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.
The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.
Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.
Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.
Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.
Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
My job as art critic is to watch artists dance naked in public, and then I will, in turn, dance naked critically in public.
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.
I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too.
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.
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.
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 forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
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 New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.