Patrick Seguin quotes
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“In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back.”
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“My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the point of collecting. It's certainly a [better] quality of life you have living with [these] works, but [I] also [value] the relationship we have with the artists.”
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“I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.”
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“I'm a collector. I think it's great for everybody. Artists like it, they answer positively.”
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“Art is fantastic, but it's also that you come to Paris, you call me, I come to New York, I come to visit you, we hang out together, and that's art.”
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“I was born in the south of France, I moved to Paris 30 years ago. I was running nightclubs and restaurants, so that was my business - working until six o'clock every morning, and then one day I noticed my wife. We opened the gallery together. She got pregnant, she was 22, I was 35, and it was time for me to change my life, and I decided to wake up early - wake up at the time I used to sleep.”
-- Patrick Seguin
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“I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.”
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“My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.”
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“I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too.”
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“The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.”
Source : Speech at Birmingham, 12 May 1904, in 'The Times' 13 May 1904
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