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

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.

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 with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 artist is a director.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings to you. You're unaffected by everything.

In Soviet-Russia the Jew is forging the tool with which he wants to enslave Europe.

..I love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.

For the book unwritten is the book burned.

The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink