Quote

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.

You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.