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.

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.

Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.

The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies whether they're painting, or have films that influence them.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.

Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.

Habit is stronger than nature.

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.