Nicola Formichetti Quotes

I love to collect modern art.

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

I love art; I collect mostly modern art.

I collect a lot of art.

My mum is a big collector of art.

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

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

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

I have a lot of art in the house, but it's mine, friends'. Not necessarily - like, I didn't spend thousands of dollars to attain it. It's authentic, at least.

I go to museums. I buy art, even. You should see my house; we don't have any wall space left.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

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

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.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

For me, all collecting must be done out of the love of the art. That being said, investment knowledge is absolutely mandatory so that you are really buying what you think you are buying.

I love art, but I've never bought an artwork or even considered it.

I buy a lot of art. I buy Andy Warhols.

I especially like to collect contemporary art.

I'm still around artists. I don't have anymore wall space. And I don't have the money to collect anymore, the prices are outrageous.

I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.

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.

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.

You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.