Victor Pinchuk Quotes

New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not.

New York is so serious about the creation of work. Everything is happening so fast, it feels like there's another studio, another session on every block, and I love that.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

New York is full of creative people, not only in fashion.

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.

Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts.

New York always has a lot of creativity going on.

Bengaluru and art are synonymous to me. People here pursue an art form and make their living out of it - not many cities can boast that. Art in Bengaluru is thriving.

I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent - and I can't really complain because I'm sort of bourgeois and affluent myself, but I like living in a place where artists and musicians and writers can actually pay the rent.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.

I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.