Top 30 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.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #31355
#2. But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

Mitchell Baker

Gagosian Quotes #182506
#3. I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.

Andy Stanley

Gagosian Quotes #266690
#4. 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.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #299456
#5. I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #332764
#6. Do not fall in love ... it means you have to look at someone else.

Sunny-Drunk

Gagosian Quotes #544634
#7. You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #561869
#8. I was always very focused on how people dressed.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #575831
#9. The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

Larry Gagosian

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#10. 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.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #837729
#11. I don't know what 'loyal' means,

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #844692
#12. One mistake does not define you.

R.J. Palacio

Gagosian Quotes #965540
#13. 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.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #1025104
#14. The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art.

Molly Crabapple

Gagosian Quotes #1132225
#15. When I get some down time on the weekends, I love gallery hopping with friends, in particular checking out Gagosian Galleries - between the three in N.Y.C., there's always a great show on or something cool to see.

Jessica Hart

Gagosian Quotes #1159971
#16. 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.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #1171433
#17. When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #1178543
#18. 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.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #1273109
#19. Professionally, what comes first is representing the artist.Whether they're alive or dead.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #1358786
#20. 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.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #1543584
#21. The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #1589143
#22. While my mother tried to stem my truancy, it would be a complete stranger - an Army Officer in the Special Forces home on leave - who would be the mentor to drive home my mother's goal of getting me educated. His name was Saul Hassan.

Richard Carmona

Gagosian Quotes #1639048
#23. 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.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #1643124
#24. Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #1679929
#25. In 1983, I was working at an art gallery in Los Angeles and going to film school at Los Angeles City College. At that time, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a young painter and was visiting L.A. for his first show at the Larry Gagosian Gallery.

Tamra Davis

Gagosian Quotes #1714266
#26. The sun never sets on my gallery.

Larry Gagosian

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#27. In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

Eduardo Galeano

Gagosian Quotes #1853681
#28. Working with younger artists kind of tests your judgment. You're not always right, but when you are, it's exciting.

Larry Gagosian

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#29. I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

Martin Scorsese

Gagosian Quotes #1866014
#30. I don't wear plaid shirts.

Larry Gagosian

Gagosian Quotes #1867088

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