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The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
- Larry Gagosian
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I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.
- Larry Gagosian
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
- Larry Gagosian
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
- Larry Gagosian
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I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
- Larry Gagosian
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
- Larry Gagosian
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
- Larry Gagosian
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Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.
- Larry Gagosian
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The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
- Larry Gagosian
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Naturally, liquidity is a big factor in any market that seems to be a lot of money in the world, and there's a lot of discretionary money.
- Larry Gagosian
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I've never been what they call a 'pure gallerist.' I find that somewhat pretentious, honestly - I'm an art dealer. I like to show great artists of our time, but I also like dealing. And I think they reinforce each other.
- Larry Gagosian
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Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts.
- Larry Gagosian
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Nobody really needs a painting. It's something you kind of create value for in a way that you don't with a company. It's an act of collective faith what an object is worth. Maintaining that value system is part of what a dealer does, not just making a transaction but making sure that important art feels important.
- Larry Gagosian
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
- Larry Gagosian
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
- Larry Gagosian
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I believe in the popularizing of art. But when you get right down to it, it's a bit of an elitist world. Not just economically elitist - how many people read poetry?
- Larry Gagosian
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