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.

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.

Waiting is often a decision not to accept responsibility and is one of the reasons why some people never reach their potential.

A man doesn't want to be rejected. We're really quite sensitive.'Sensitive?' She laughed, her head on one side. 'Sensitive egos you mean. Never met a man who didn't have one of those.

My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.

For every level there’s another Devil.