Kim Weston Quotes

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

People don't buy and sell art based on the personality of the artist. Or there wouldn't be much art bought and sold.

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

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

There's a market for art, and things are indeed going swimmingly, especially for German artists. But everything takes place in America and in London, where there are quite a few wealthy, engaged people. What motivates them to buy art is a different question, but they do.

I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.

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.

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.

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

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

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

I'm an art collector, have been for years, and I paint. Needless to say, the artwork in my houses, apartment is extensive.

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

I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.

I've been an art collector since the Sixties, and I kept it very separate from my showbusiness career. I've had art shows since the early Nineties, a museum show that travelled to four countries. I've had three or four art books; it's just another way I have to tell stories.

I've never been what they call a 'pure gallerist.' I find that somewhat pretentious, honestly - I'm an art dealer. I like to show great artists of our time, but I also like dealing. And I think they reinforce each other.

Selling art is a lot different than making it.

I especially like to collect contemporary art.

The art world is a bit smaller than the music world, and the music world is a bit smaller than the cinema world. But the art world is pretty tight even though the biggest thing that's happened to it is the auctions, which are the only reason people on the outside know anything about it.

The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.