And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.
First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that.
Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.
Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'
I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.
If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.
People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.
I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.
I love to be in front of big galleries.
Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.