Buying Art Quotes:

Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.

- Arne Glimcher

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Art, Museums, People, Buying Art

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.

- Anselm Kiefer

source: "Anselm Kiefer: 'Art is difficult, it's not entertainment'" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

topic: Art, Giving, People, Buying Art, New Artists

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

- Pablo Picasso

source: "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

topic: Life, Art, Dust, Fine Arts, Jazz And Life

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Inspiration And Art, Spider Web

Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For many, buying art is their escape from the real world. Make it entertaining and enjoyable.

- Cory Trepanier

topic: Art, Real, Views, Real World, Artistic Process

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

- George Horace Lorimer

source: George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.251, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Leadership, Money, Lost, Good Money, Spending Other People's Money

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Witty, Money, Men, Frugality, Good Money

I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

- Evan Ross

source: "Evan Ross ‘The Gardens of the Night’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. November 15, 2008.

topic: Art, Book, Creative, Creative Outlets, Clothing Line

I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev.

- Ronnie Dunn

topic: Art, Native American, Years, Buying Art

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

- Charles Saatchi

source: Charles Saatchi (2012). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers”, p.201

topic: Art, Years, May, Buying Art, I May Not Be