Able Quote by Damien Hirst

My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a…

— Paul Brown

By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or aesthetic value.…

— Paul Brown

There were a lot of publishers that I loved, so the book went to auction. An auction is where you sit nervously by your…

— Molly Yeh

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

— Jason Statham

To be a winner, you've got to be an appraiser. You've got to be able to play at your best under pressure. And more…

— Bobby Riggs

Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In…

— Jerry Saltz

One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts.

— Alfred Sheinwold

The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually…

— Marlene Dumas

I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices,…

— Jerry Saltz

The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast,…

— Jack White

“Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches…

— Fast Company

Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get…

— Charlie Munger