Dasha Zhukova Quotes

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.

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.

I'm a huge art buff.

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

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

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

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.

I visit a lot of art galleries. I live in Dublin and there's a very good gallery called the Kevin Kavanagh gallery.

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.

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 never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to 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.

The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.

Seattle has a long tradition of celebrating local and non-local art - from the Burke and Seattle Art Museums to the Asian Art Museum.

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

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.

I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

I have a strong art-history background.

My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

I want to know art.

I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.