Sarah Thornton Quotes

• Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

  Sarah Thornton

  Art, World, Outsiders

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• (...) el arte contemporáneo se ha convertido en una especie de religión alternativa para los ateos. (...) Para muchos iniciados en el mundo del arte y aficionados de otros tipos, el arte conceptual es una especie de canal existencial a través del cual dan sentido a sus vidas. Exige saltos de fe, pero recompensa al creyente con un sentido de consecuencia. Además, al igual que las iglesias y otros lugares de reunión ritual cumplen una función social, los acontecimientos artísticos generan un sentimiento de comunidad en torno a intereses compartidos.

  Sarah Thornton

  Atheist, Art, Community

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• The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.

  Sarah Thornton

  Artist, Night, World

  Sarah Thornton (2012). “Seven Days In The Art World”, p.66, Granta Books

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• Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual analysis or critical thinking. Althought the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make works that "looks like art" and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. (...) Originality is not always rewarded, but some people take real risks and innovate, which gives a raison d'être to the rest

  Sarah Thornton

  Arte, Real, Pensamiento

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