Art Showcase Quotes

I don't think anyone would want to come to my gallery show.

I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it's empty.

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

I used to think of exhibitions as being practice but they are not.

You only get 15 minutes to work and show your art and everything can you do. At the end of the day, it's a fight.

I primarily buy art to show it off.

Doing art at Marlborough, where I went to school, was really quite tough, and I knew that it wasn't the direction I wanted to go. I'd rather show art and give people the joy of seeing it.

Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

I am more used to seeing my work like a big collection, and only part of it is being shown.

At a certain point, I had so much artwork that I decided to respect the art and present them in a nice way, not just on a dusty shelf.

The sun never sets on my gallery.

I love to be in front of big galleries.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art.

Alberto Alessi had asked a dozen architects to design a sterling silver tea service - with a teapot, a coffee pot, sugar, creamer, a spoon, and a tray. Our brief was that it didn't matter if it didn't work and cost wasn't the issue. It was a promotional project, not a commercial enterprise, and was going to be showcased in museums. And the coffee and tea piazza, as mine was called, received a great response. It was wonderful to walk into the Whitney museum and see all these objects on the first floor.

I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see.

Being in a room full of my art makes me incredibly nervous because the work always gets damaged when it's shown, and I hate my openings.