Jessica Jackley Quotes

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

San Francisco has always been a great city for art collectors.

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

Fans are hungry for original artwork.

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

Buying art is not understanding art.

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

I'm a huge art buff.

I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.

I would begin by collecting lithographs and etchings. It's a way of coming in and benefiting from real quality art. Even younger artists make wonderful prints. Prints can become very valuable. That's how I began collecting.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.

I love art; I collect mostly modern art.

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.

If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.

I've been collecting art for much of my adult life. I started around 1960. And my wife and I really enjoy art a great deal. We don't have a lot of money, so we have works on paper, but we enjoy them a great deal.