Arne Glimcher Quotes

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• People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted…
• There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of its artists and…
• Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.
• Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.
• Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our…
• Film and art are close together.
• Everything happens through relationships.
• Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell…
• I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.
• When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a…
• I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin,…
• I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.
• In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist…
• When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western…
• The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements,…
• As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its…
• Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as…
• Draw what you see.
• Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great…
• I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the…

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