Hermann Goering Quotes

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

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

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

I collect a lot of art.

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

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

My mum is a big collector of art.

I love art; I collect mostly modern art.

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because it's part of my journey.

An art book is a museum without walls.

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

I especially like to collect contemporary art.

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

I collect art on a very modest scale. Most of what I have is photography because I just love it and it makes me happy and it looks good in my home. I also have a pretty big collection of art books mainly, again, on photography. A lot of photography monographs, which is great because with photography, the art itself can be reproduced quite well in book form.

Constable himself knew the value of such studies, for he rarely parted with them. He used to say of his studies and pictures that he had no objection to part with the corn, but not with the field that grew it.

I'd mortgage any house for 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 primarily buy art to show it off.

Any critic will tell you that there are a few dealers where you get a little bit scared to go into their gallery, and that's unfair to them, to yourself, to the reader, and to the artist. But I just want to look. When I'm done looking and writing, I love talking to art dealers. They are so alive and interesting and amazing - from Larry Gagosian all the way on down.

Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.

Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art.