Quotes About Art Dealers

#1. Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).

Jerry Saltz

#2. Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard.

Charles Saatchi

#3. I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.

Jerry Saltz

#4. And so Catherine's thoughts - as would the thoughts of any woman in such a quandary - turned to shopping: to the art dealers and markets of europe.

Robert Coughlan

#5. I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.

Joan Larkin

#6. Despite all the efforts of art dealers, the number of Rembrandts existing at a given time is limited; yet such paintings are commonly disposed of by auction.

Ronald Coase

#7. I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.

Olafur Eliasson

#8. Wealth brings poverty in its wake, thought Andrew,

Felix J. Palma

#9. Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

Claude Monet

#10. Focused awareness of the Self in one direction (upayog) is considered enlightened awareness (jagruti).

Dada Bhagwan

#11. The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.

Oswald Chambers

#12. The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.

Armand Hammer

#13. I am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very good selection of work that they can work with. And it is up to them to find the dealers. I don't interfere with their selling.

Robert Barry

#14. My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field.

Thomas Hoving

#15. The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

Auguste Rodin

#16. I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.

Timothy Ferriss

#17. I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#18. There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of its artists and dealers. When that stops happening, it's the end.

Arne Glimcher

#19. I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive.

Stanley Druckenmiller

#20. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.

Jerry Saltz

#21. Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

John Waters

#22. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

Vera Nazarian

#23. Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.

Betty Ford

#24. If you don't have a plan, you can end up doing some interesting things.

Karl Pilkington

#25. There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.

Walter Darby Bannard

#26. The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#27. Hard information on the quantity of bogus art sold is difficult to come by, in part because fraud, when discovered by dealers and auction houses, is usually kept secret to boost public confidence in the art market.

Peter Landesman