Global Art Quotes

I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it's empty.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

I've always wanted my art to be global rather than local. I want to make paintings that people everywhere can relate to.

You should be able to be influenced by art no matter where it comes from.

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

Art should have no nationality and between artists we should be able to develop complete reciprocity. We need emotional outlets in this country and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

There's a market for art, and things are indeed going swimmingly, especially for German artists. But everything takes place in America and in London, where there are quite a few wealthy, engaged people. What motivates them to buy art is a different question, but they do.

I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

I don't think art is bound by language or country.

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films... that's never going to die, but I think it's amazing that collaborations like that are happening.

There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

We do have Museums of African American Art in the United States, and there is a National Museum of Women's Art. However, I believe Latinos are best served by displaying their art next to the art of other groups, particularly North American, European, and even Asian artists.

To be honest, I don't particularly see myself as an Icelandic artist. I'm a European artist.

I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world inside out. And this starts right now.

Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?

The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American mathematics or physics would seem absurd... And in another sense, the problem doesn't exist at all; or, if it did, would solve itself: An American is an American and his painting would naturally be qualified by the fact, whether he wills or not. But the basic problems of contemporary painting are independent of any one country.

All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show work in Switzerland or somewhere else, everywhere else seems to be the provinces in a certain way. You wonder what your paintings are doing on the walls and you wonder who's looking at them.