Arne Glimcher Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Film and art are close together.

Everything happens through relationships.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.