Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

Sometimes the art world can be a scary place, and you feel like you should know more than you do, but it's okay to not know everything!

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it.

What does 'dating' mean? I don't know. I couldn't say.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it has become a lazy profession in regard to its relationship to the artists and the vigorous state of art making.

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.

The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe and Asia and North America has fallen over themselves to have their own contemporary art museum.

I go to contemporary galleries all around the world when I can. There's always something historical and something contemporary; those are my rock references.

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

Buying art is not understanding art.

I'm a huge art buff.

My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

I'm enamored with the art world.

I want to know art.

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.

My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.