Submissions From www.artinfo.com

 "If you are a large dealer, last year was probably one of your best. The primary market has ticked slightly upward to 52 percent of the total art market, up from 50 percent last year. If not, you may be screwed. Inequality in the broader economy is increasingly apparent in the art world. However, much of the discussion has been focused on the stagnation of the middle market. " (Shane Ferro)

 "There is no guarantee that your artwork is going to increase in value - much art is doomed to go out of fashion. An individual work or series of works can even decline in value while other works by that artist appreciate. " (Shane Ferro)

 "The real reason why today's art-and-money culture is objectionable is that the people who have consolidated their power - over the art world and the real world alike - are quite often really terrible people." (Ben Davis)

 "Buying and selling contemporary art at the highest level currently has a lot more to do with capitalism than it does cultural value. Unless you understand that, you aren't actually talking about the art market at all." (Shane Ferro)

 "Some of the biggest art stories of 2012 were obituaries, as the passing of many leading figures from the corners of art, design, architecture, and criticism were met with eloquent eulogies and ardent words of tribute. " (Reid Singer)

 "The title of curator was, until recently, art-world specific, and though the job was hard to define at times, it was the most powerful role for non-artist members of the art world. No longer - the bubble for this particular word has now burst. " (Kyle Chayka)

 "The second half of Modern Painters's list of adventurous young art aficionados." (Modern Painters)

 "It's not the first time that Facebook has played censor, having previously disabled the accounts of users who posted Gustave Courbet's racy painting The Origin of the World and annoying the New York Academy of Art by frequently removing nude works of art from the school's page." (Juliette Soulez)

 "Within art-tech circles, the buzz these days is about something called the New Aesthetic, a coinage of James Bridle, who launched a Tumblr of the same name dedicated to aggregating phenomena that blur together digital culture and real-world design, and seem characteristic of the present's plugged-in sensibility." (Ben Davis)

 "While prices at the top end of the market still heavily lean toward male artists, is that changing? " (Shane Ferro)

 "I know this kind of display isn't fashionable, but it reflects how collectors actually live with art. " (Benjamin Genocchio)

 "I want to speak about art more directly and more often to anyone willing to listen; anyone who loves, is interested in, or skeptical of art; even if they didn't go to art-school or don't know the secret handshakes and lingo of the art world." (Artinfo)

 "I was in the room when Prince and Gagosian were deposed and they have an overwhelming sense of power. They think that they're untouchable. Prince got away with it for 20 years, and when he got into the courtroom he was like, "What am I doing here?" What [using my work] was, at the end of the day, was a quick fix where Gagosian could make a few million and then move on to something else. And we're not talking about using one or two pictures, were talking about 41 pictures. -- Patrick Cariou" (Andrew M. Goldstein )

 "For half a millennium, self-portraits have worked. But not recently. Over the past decade or two, the self-portrait has substantially died out." (Tyler Green)