Quotes About Buying Art

#1. I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

Charles Saatchi

#2. Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For many, buying art is their escape from the real world. Make it entertaining and enjoyable.

Cory Trepanier

#3. I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

Evan Ross

#4. I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev.

Ronnie Dunn

#5. I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.

Daniel S. Loeb

#6. 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

#7. Buying art is not understanding art.

Anselm Kiefer

#8. Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.

Arne Glimcher

#9. We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.

Steven Soderbergh

#10. I'm saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time I'm in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.

Nicola Formichetti

#11. The world rests upon the poor . . . .

Joseph Conrad

#12. The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that's just beyond anything we've ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art.

Kevin Kwan

#13. It's like we each have a wall that separates our dreams from reality, but mine has cracks in it. The dreams can wriggle and squeeze their way through, until it's hard to know the difference.

Nathan Filer

#14. Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

Jill Lepore

#15. I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

Kanye West

#16. As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.

Damien Hirst

#17. I dragged Meg toward the sewer (because that's what friends are for)

Rick Riordan

#18. People think, "Wow, people in America have so much money, they're sending hundreds of pencils to this guy." I don't think those people realize that most people who are buying these pencils are buying them as art objects or conversation pieces.

David Rees

#19. It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective (except in substitution for investment by other entrepreneurs which would have occurred otherwise) at a faster rate than the public decide to increase their savings

John Maynard Keynes

#20. For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.

Robert Greene

#21. Supporting a creative artist can mean buying their books, music, art, movie, and photographs or just shouting out their name.

Chris Mentillo

#22. Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

Charles Saatchi

#23. I like charcoal drawing a lot. I'm not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I'm on location, because I always have this ambition to fill the hotel room I'm in and turn it into an art studio.

Ben Schnetzer

#24. I know nothing of magick," the naked man said to the raven, "except what you told me." He laughed sadly. "And I barely remember that. I tend to drift off when you ramble.

Ash Gray

#25. I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.

Karl Pilkington

#26. I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art.

Evangeline Lilly

#27. He leaned in close, his mouth near her ear. "Dance with me.

Donna Grant

#28. My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.

David Rockefeller

#29. I would love for a regular student to have a student-athlete's schedule during the season for just one quarter or one semester and show me how you balance that. Show me how you would schedule your classes when you can't schedule classes from 2-to-6 o'clock on any given day.

Richard Sherman

#30. Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

Sol LeWitt

#31. It had never crossed my mind that a man could think he had the right to stop me from being who I was.

Gioconda Belli

#32. It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building.

John Ruskin

#33. As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#34. motherfucker," I shouted at the top of my lungs, waving a fist and slapping it against the water while I treaded water. "You knew this was going to happen! You fucking knew it!

Jesse Bastide

#35. I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

Sylvester Stallone

#36. Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

Saskia De Brauw