Nathan Sawaya Quotes

You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.

My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.

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

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.

Art is fun to buy.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

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

The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

People think that you upload a video, and it goes viral, and then you're a YouTube star, and I'm like, 'Nah, no.' In total, with all of the channels I've done, I've uploaded anywhere from 400 to 1,000 videos to the Internet, and each one of those takes a whole day to make.

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

I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

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

No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.

I used to live in New York, and I know a number of people who have friends who work at galleries. I spent time hanging out with them, going to openings. It was a good way to do research, to hang out and to look at the art that was present.

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

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