Top 20 Larry Gagosian Quotes
#1. I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.
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#2. I don't think you can tell somebody how they should collect. I think it's just about being turned on by art.At the end of the day, some people just kind of get it. They don't all get it in the same way or get the same artists, but it's a journey that excites them.
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#3. I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me.
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#4. You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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#6. The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
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#7. I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
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#9. Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.
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#10. The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
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#11. When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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#12. The so-called "secondary market" has also always been something that I'm comfortable with. I'm not a dealer who turns his nose up at that part of the business. I'm an art dealer - my primary responsibility is to represent the artist.
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#13. Professionally, what comes first is representing the artist.Whether they're alive or dead.
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#14. For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the artist, then you probably shouldn't be representing them.
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#15. The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.
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#16. When a collector says, "You've got to educate me," or "What's a good investment?" then I don't know what to say. I have no idea. Let's face it, I'm probably going to recommend artists that I represent.
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#17. Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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#19. Working with younger artists kind of tests your judgment. You're not always right, but when you are, it's exciting.
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