I hate when dealers talk to me. I love dealers - they're some of our favorite people in the art world. But I hate if they do a sales pitch on me. I can't stand it.
Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.
I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
Peggy Guggenheim is a real hero to have done what she did in a man's world, as the art world still is.
I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly a patron of the arts because he goes to the opera.
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.