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Heart on his sleeve, collector, writer, and entrepreneur Adam Lindemann tells Sotheby’s Alex Rotter, that, although he sold it for a timely world-wide record price of almost $24 million dollars, he “misses the hanging heart.”
Jeff Koons, at the 2010 Whitney Gala and Studio Party, listing the “influences” for his latest oil paintings and marble works : “Dali, Manet, Velazquez, Titian, you know… DaVinci, Praxiteles.”
“90 percent of all public sculpture is bad because it’s chosen by committees and bureaucrats…no one even knows what public art should do anymore.”
– Jerry Saltz
Writing for the Villiage Voice: David Zwirner’s ‘Primary Atmospheres’ Is California Sweet
David Zwirner says:
There’s one misconception that wherever there is money, there’s an art market. Dubai was always an overrated market. They need a certain level of intellectual discourse and aesthetic dialogue. They need institutions and to come to terms with their censorship—and then eventually, maybe, they’ll get an art world.
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Funny and Savvy Villiage Voice Story By Christian Viveros-Fauné
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.
~Michelangelo
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We are no longer collecting art, we are buying individuals.
~Rene Ricard
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Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.
~Andy Warhol
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
~Andy Warhol
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Promotion and perception are synonymous twins of art marketing.
~Jack White
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
~Salvador Dali
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
~Edgar Degas
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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
~Lucian Freud
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“Get them into debt … Get them to buy lots of houses, … get expensive habits and expensive girlfriends and expensive wives.”
~ Mary Boone (on how to get artists to produce)
“Do you like adolescent entertainment? Do you have the mentality of a teenager? Do you find Cézanne a bit overrated? If the answer is yes, yes and yes, then I don’t know what to do with you. You are a childish philistine literalist. Get down to Bonhams (one of the world’s oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques) next Tuesday for their first-ever dedicated sale of “street art” – this is the experience for you.”
~ Matthew Collings (January 28, 2008 in a review for TIMES ONLINE)
“Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.”
The Art Machine 