Patrick Seguin famous quotes

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.
-- Patrick Seguin

#Furniture #Passed Away #Architecture

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.
-- Patrick Seguin

#Artist #Past #Quality

I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.
-- Patrick Seguin

#Artist #Good Relationship #Want

I'm a collector. I think it's great for everybody. Artists like it, they answer positively.
-- Patrick Seguin

#Artist #Thinking #Answers

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.
-- Patrick Seguin

#Art #New York #Visits You

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

#Running #Morning #Sleep

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too.

The day Elvis passed away would be our national holiday, if the South would have won, we'd had it made.

The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.