Art Quote by Marina Abramovic

Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then you're going…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

— Uta Hagen

People quickly look through things and don't sit and experience. That's a problem with artwork, [because] it's more of an experience than something to…

— Ali Banisadr

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that…

— Marina Abramovic

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I…

— Charles Saatchi

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and…

— David Elliott

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

— Charles Saatchi

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery,…

— Robert Genn

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

— Eli Broad

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust…

— Steve Martin

Pictures capture the moment, not the memory.

— Scarlet Koop