Art is a tool by which society extends its perception..

No one's ever called me anything but 'Arne.'.

As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its….

People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live wi….

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century..

I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really in….

I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself..

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience..

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager..

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art..

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and….

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me..

Everything happens through relationships..

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock..

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art..

If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformati….

Film and art are close together..

Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate..

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 ….

When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part….

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish..