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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Art is fun to buy.

Art is not meant to change the world.

There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.

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.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

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

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.