Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.

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.

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

When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.

The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

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

I used to live in New York, and I know a number of people who have friends who work at galleries. I spent time hanging out with them, going to openings. It was a good way to do research, to hang out and to look at the art that was present.

I've been an art collector since the Sixties, and I kept it very separate from my showbusiness career. I've had art shows since the early Nineties, a museum show that travelled to four countries. I've had three or four art books; it's just another way I have to tell stories.

I try to avoid the 'art world' as much as possible. It's too much about fads and fashions - who's getting the best prices at auction and things like that.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.

I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

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

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.

I'm an art collector, have been for years, and I paint. Needless to say, the artwork in my houses, apartment is extensive.

I don't think the art market is for everybody. Yeah, of course we have a global gallery. But we're like the one-tenth of the one-tenth of the one-tenth. OK? Not just who's buying but who's really seriously engaged with 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!

I love art, but I've never bought an artwork or even considered it.

The art world is a bit smaller than the music world, and the music world is a bit smaller than the cinema world. But the art world is pretty tight even though the biggest thing that's happened to it is the auctions, which are the only reason people on the outside know anything about it.

Buying art is not understanding art.

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