Arne Glimcher Quotes

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Arne Glimcher

Profession : Director

Birth : March 12, 1938

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.

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Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

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Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

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As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

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I'm a visual person.

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In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist style. Zhang Xiaogang, Huang Yong Ping, Ai WeiWei, Yue Minjun, and Wang Guangyi were among the first group of artists to establish a movement that became known as Cynical Realism.

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The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.

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I would begin by collecting lithographs and etchings. It's a way of coming in and benefiting from real quality art. Even younger artists make wonderful prints. Prints can become very valuable. That's how I began collecting.

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Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.

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Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

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Film and art are close together.

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No one's ever called me anything but 'Arne.'

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I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

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The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.

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Everything happens through relationships.

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I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

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The '80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art. When the Japanese economy went down the tubes, there was no one left to pay the prices that have been recorded for all of those works.

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I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

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It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

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When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try to replace it. They choose the former.

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