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I don't wear plaid shirts.
Larry Gagosian / Art Dealer
Shirts
Wear
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I don't know what 'loyal' means.
Larry Gagosian / Art Dealer
Knows
Loyal
Mean
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
Larry Gagosian / Art Dealer
Gallery
Sun
Sets
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
Larry Gagosian / Art Dealer
Focused
Always People How
Dressed
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My gallery represents a lot of figurative artists.
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Gallery
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San Francisco has always been a great city for art collectors.
Larry Gagosian / Art Dealer
Collectors
San Francisco
Art Great Always
Francisco
Great City
San
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The more people who look at great art, the better for our culture.
Larry Gagosian / Art Dealer
Great Art
More People
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I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me.
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Play Hard
Stuff
Surprise
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
Larry Gagosian / Art Dealer
Family
Circumstances
Class
Grew
Grew Up
Honestly
Middle
Middle Class Family
Modest
Pretty
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The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.
Larry Gagosian / Art Dealer
People
Regard
Way
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Professionally, what comes first is representing the artist.Whether they're alive or dead.
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Alive
Artist
Firsts
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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?
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Great Artist
Pursue
Great Will Know
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I've never been on a board, but I just went on the board for Jazz at Lincoln Center. I'm very happy about that.
Larry Gagosian / Art Dealer
Jazz
Board
Center
Lincoln
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I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.
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Art
College
Reading
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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.
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Manage
Representing
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Working with younger artists kind of tests your judgment. You're not always right, but when you are, it's exciting.
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Artist
Kind
Tests
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The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
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Art
Becoming
Consensus
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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 / Art Dealer
Consensus
Good Art
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Some people buy art because they're confident that it'll be a good store value, and this is kind of a recent phenomenon.
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Phenomenon
Recent
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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.
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Art History
Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Great People
Void
Art History Great
Acts
Artists
History Art Great
Second
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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 / Art Dealer
Class
Magazines
Reading
Drawn
Galleries
Proper
Started Reading
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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.
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Liquidity
Discretionary
Factor
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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.
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Art World
Buying
Cycles
Nfl
Art Great World
Extent
Great Extent
More People
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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?
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Elitist
Economically
How Many People
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For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the artist, then you probably shouldn't be representing them.
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Art
Natural
Want
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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.
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Travel
Geneva
Hong Kong
Impossible
One Minute
Showing Up
Physically
Minute
Openings
Showing
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You have to be a little bit cautious when the market gets quite strong because there's a tendency to anoint a genius artist every other day. That would be a word of advice for the collectors out there.
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Cautious
Collectors
Every Other Day
Tendency
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When a collector says, "You've got to educate me," or "What's a good investment?" then I don't know what to say. I have no idea. Let's face it, I'm probably going to recommend artists that I represent.
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Artist
Faces
Ideas
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I have a good visual memory. I'm good with faces, but names - I get in trouble a lot; I can't seem to remember people. People think I'm rude. As a side comment, you know, I'm not being rude: I just kind of blank out.
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Blank
Comment
Faces
Visual
Good Memory Remember
Just Kind
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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 / Art Dealer
Dealer
Our Time
Pretentious
Pure
Time Art Great
Art Time Great
Somewhat
Reinforce
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I don't think the art market is for everybody. Yeah, of course we have a global gallery. But we're like the one-tenth of the one-tenth of the one-tenth. OK? Not just who's buying but who's really seriously engaged with art.
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Buying
Engaged
Gallery
Yeah
Market
Seriously
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The so-called "secondary market" has also always been something that I'm comfortable with. I'm not a dealer who turns his nose up at that part of the business. I'm an art dealer - my primary responsibility is to represent the artist.
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Art
Noses
Responsibility
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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.
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Goods
Luxury
Unique
Sell
Factory
Something Else
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Good jazz has been a big part of my life as far as my interest in music, and... It's kind of weird now with music, the way technology is, with downloading and iPods and electronic distribution, and its kind of - you miss something, I think.
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Distribution
Life Good Technology
Big Part
Downloading
Electronic
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I don't think you can tell somebody how they should collect. I think it's just about being turned on by art.At the end of the day, some people just kind of get it. They don't all get it in the same way or get the same artists, but it's a journey that excites them.
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Art
Journey
Thinking
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A lot of artists are involved with fabrication. Artists today are making more objects and many of them need the participation of a dealer in order to facilitate and provide support for projects. So that has changed. But I don't know if what it means to be an artist has really changed. I hope that it hasn't.
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Artist
Mean
Order
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I think functioning as a business manager can be a hindrance to having a real dialogue with the artist. I do think that artists need good lawyers and accountants, because they're dealing with serious money. But an artist who stands behind a manager? That's a little different. I think that can be a bad buffer.
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Real
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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.
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Dealer
Maintaining
Collective
Object
Transaction
Value System
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I've had people say to me, "Well, how do I start collecting artworks?" Well, you start by buying. Buy what you like, buy what you can afford - and I'm not just saying that because I'm a dealer. You can't be so paralyzed to where you keep saying, "I've got to learn more." The best way to learn is to go home and actually put something on the wall. Then you've got an investment. Then you're living with it. Then you're in the game.
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Home
Games
Wall
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