"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."

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Arne Glimcher

#Art Quotes #Museums Quotes #People Quotes

“Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Toast is me. I am toast.”
“By many a temple half as old as Time.”

Source : 'Italy. A Farewell' (1828) 2, 5.
“Great souls endure in silence.”

Source : Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.295
“Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.”
“Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought.”
“I do not rule Russia. 10,000 clerks do.”
“Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can take place through a long, quiet process of transformation. But it always involves an inner experience of oneness.”

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