Jessica Hart Quotes

If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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

I'm a huge art buff.

I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it.

During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums.

I love art; I collect mostly modern art.

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

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.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

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 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 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.

There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.

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

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

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

I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere.

I've been an art collector since the Sixties, and I kept it very separate from my showbusiness career. I've had art shows since the early Nineties, a museum show that travelled to four countries. I've had three or four art books; it's just another way I have to tell stories.

We always have a great time touring Germany, but one of my favourite museums in the world is Museum Ludwig, an incredible contemporary art museum in Cologne. I could spend all day in it.

I have been a stalwart advocate for the legacy of Charles White. I have said it so often, it could go without saying. I have always believed that his work should be seen wherever great pictures are collected and made available to art-loving audiences.

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 buy a lot of art. I buy Andy Warhols.