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Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value. -- Jerry Saltz
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them. -- Jerry Saltz
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. -- H. L. Mencken
Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction. -- Stephen Kinzer
The designer of my Emmy gown is donating my gown to the charity for an auction. -- Maria Menounos
I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that. -- Paul Lynde
Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale! -- Tom Selleck
My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson. -- Pedro Martinez
I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box. -- James Lee Burke
I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty. -- Jerry Yang
If you default on your Visa bill, nobody comes to repossess your refrigerator or auction off your shoes. The biggest penalty you'll face is trouble getting future credit. -- Virginia Postrel
Is Amazon truly the best online buying experience? Absolutely not. Is eBay the best platform for auction? Probably not. Are dating sites like match.com really a reflection of the way people date? Probably not. -- Danny Rimer
My assistant says I'm an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts... about 4,000 now. Maybe I'll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts. -- Bruce Vilanch
Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing. -- Sophia Amoruso
When you buy a company at an auction, and you are committing yourself to pay some $300 million to the state because it was a privatization deal, and you don't pay it, is it OK? Isn't it something that deserves court procedures? -- Sergei Lavrov
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. -- Edmund Burke
This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew. -- Wilbur Smith
The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful. -- Marlene Dumas
The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art. -- Mark Ruffalo
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the 'China thing.' -- Arne Glimcher
My only market analysis was to look around and see that, in one way or another, most watches are inspired by watches that were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. If I wanted a watch like that, I'd much rather buy the real thing at auction than a replica. -- Richard Mille
Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners. -- Kage Baker
A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage. -- Jerry Saltz
We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months. -- Nathan Myhrvold
My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind. -- Shia LaBeouf
On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person. -- Krysten Ritter
Publication - is the auction of the mind... -- Emily Dickinson
All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods. -- Ai Weiwei
War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery. -- David Mitchell
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods. -- Ambrose Bierce
This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away? -- Jennifer Lawrence
A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself. -- Rumi
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder. -- Bill Moyers
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. -- David Mitchell
My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time. -- Brian Hodge
We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong. -- Ann Richards
Can you imagine a demon auction? Serial killer going once...twice...sold to the drama queen at the corner. -- P. C. Cast
I got [Muhammad Ali's boxing shorts] for $40 at an auction. Nobody wanted them. I have them framed in my house. -- Christopher Walken
I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that." -- Paul Lynde
It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action. -- Andy Hargreaves
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world. -- A. Alfred Taubman
Despite all the efforts of art dealers, the number of Rembrandts existing at a given time is limited; yet such paintings are commonly disposed of by auction. -- Ronald Coase
Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive - nearly every e-auction delivered cost savings. -- Brian Miller
There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding. -- William McIlvanney
You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction. -- James Lee Burke
A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction. -- Seth Klarman
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 was bidding against Meryl Streep. -- Arne Glimcher

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