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Image, Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you

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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

Image, Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve

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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.

—Arne Glimcher

Image, I like the idea of a love story between men. There is

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I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.

—Arne Glimcher

Image, Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

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Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

—Arne Glimcher

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Image, I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went

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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.

—Arne Glimcher

Image, If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into

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If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.

—Arne Glimcher

Image, Film and art are close together.

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Film and art are close together.

—Arne Glimcher

Image, The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in

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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.

—Arne Glimcher

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Image, No one’s ever called me anything but ‘Arne.’

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

—Arne Glimcher

Image, When Robert Benton was doing the movie ‘In the Still of the

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When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.

—Arne Glimcher

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

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

—Arne Glimcher

Image, I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.

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I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.

—Arne Glimcher

Image, Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a

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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.

—Arne Glimcher

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Image, I’ve been told I’m a good midcareer manager.

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

—Arne Glimcher

Image, As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America,

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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.

—Arne Glimcher

Image, There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of

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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

Image, I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was

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I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.

—Arne Glimcher