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.

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.

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.

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marisa starts to snoop. I might as well too. It's not often that I get to visit a water pellet company in a freaky refugee nation.

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

Always zig when people expect you to zag. Confound them!