Larry Gagosian Quotes

Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

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.

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

I collect a lot of art.

An art book is a museum without walls.

Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.

I like to see things. I see a lot more art than I'd like to see. We have to be polite and see the art shows of people we know. We see a lot of art.

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.

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

I primarily buy art to show it off.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

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

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

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

I love art; I collect mostly modern art.

Art matters.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

I love to collect modern art.

I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.