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Collector Inspirational Quotes (964)

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One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Gertrude Stein
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I had an interview once with some German journalist - some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists - maybe a week after - and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, It's impolite remove your glasses. I said, Do I ask you to remove your br
Karl Lagerfeld
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
Victor Pinchuk
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I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.
Victor Pinchuk
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Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.
Victor Pinchuk
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
Victor Pinchuk
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Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.
Victor Pinchuk
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
Victor Pinchuk
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What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
Victor Pinchuk
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
Gertrude Stein
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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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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein
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If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
Gertrude Stein
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Never explain, never complain.
Wallis Simpson
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Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
Wallis Simpson
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You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
Wallis Simpson
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There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.
Wallis Simpson
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A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.
Wallis Simpson
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