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Art Collector Inspirational Quotes (4721)

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It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.
Vincent Price
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I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.
Vincent Price
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Every five years, I decide to learn something new.
Jean Pigozzi
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If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay
Madonna Ciccone
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I think Michael Heizer and Walter De Maria had a love-hate relationship because they both had a lot in common. But inevitably one would get more publicity than another. Of course, Robert Smithson's gotten so much attention through the years. One of the reasons is not only that his work is quite wonderful, but the fact that he was a writer himself.
Virginia Dwan
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I think that Walter De Maria's Lightning Field, Michael Heizer's City, and Charles Ross's work in Star Axis New Mexico , all three will last for a millennium.
Virginia Dwan
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Quite honestly, even as a woman dealer, I really wasn't interested in masculinity or femininity as such. What was important to me was the value of the work itself. If a woman had come along, somebody like Lee Bontecou or Louise Nevelson, and said, I'm working on the land, I would have gone to see it.
Virginia Dwan
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I think the four land artists I showed all worked within a few years of each other. And they were standard bearers, I suppose, for land art. They each did very separate things. Apparently, later in California, a lot of artists started working in that medium and there was something of a rush of earthworks. But I wasn't involved with that.
Virginia Dwan
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It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.
Christina, Queen of Sweden
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I remember very vividly. I was here in New York. Nancy Holt called me and - I feel unhappy thinking about it - she said that Bob Smithson had died. I said, Oh, Nancy, what will we do without Bob? He was a very good friend.
Virginia Dwan
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The gallery closed its doors in 1971. I could no longer psychologically handle the needs of 12 artists. I cared about all of them, and what was happening with their careers. I'm just not a person who can do that indefinitely. And tax-wise I was concerned because they gallery wasn't making money it was losing money.
Virginia Dwan
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
Queen Elizabeth II
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The shadows of things are greater than themselves and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.
Herman Melville
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Its better to live a goat than 100 sheep.
Madonna Ciccone
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Any man of energy and initiative can get what he wants out of life. But when initiative is crippled by legislation or by a tax system which denies him the right to receive a reasonable share of his earnings, then he will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends.
Andrew Mellon
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Every man wants to connect his life with something he thinks eternal.
Andrew Mellon
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If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.
Andrew Mellon
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Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
Andrew Mellon
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I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress.
Andrew Mellon
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A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
Andrew Mellon
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The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.
Andrew Mellon
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There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.
Andrew Mellon
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Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
Andrew Mellon
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein
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