Larry Gagosian Quotes

I want to know art.

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

I think art was the one thing my high school didn't give. And I think that was probably one reason why I was interested in it.

I go to contemporary galleries all around the world when I can. There's always something historical and something contemporary; those are my rock references.

When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed to it. There were no museums that had great artists in them.

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

I'm a huge art buff.

I have a strong art-history background.

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman.

Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

I don't go to enough exhibitions, purely because it intimidates me.

I'm just a fan of art and culture.

If I ever go back to college, I'd study art education.

Buying art is not understanding art.

That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it.