Arne Glimcher Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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 hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.”

“Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the 'China thing.'”

“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, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.”

“I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.”

“Draw what you see.”

“Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.”

“Everything happens through relationships.”

“Film and art are close together.”

“I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.”

“I'm a visual person.”