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Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction. -- Stephen Kinzer
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared. -- Stephen Kinzer
I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because it's part of my journey. -- Delphine Arnault
I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough. -- Jaye Davidson
I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything. -- Andrew Lloyd Webber
I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because its part of my journey. -- Delphine Arnault
I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand. -- Lena Dunham
My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces. My own art is either on exhibition or owned by other people! -- Robert Bateman
The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw. -- Humphry Davy
I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history. -- Thomas P. Campbell
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. -- Jay Kay
In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut. -- Bryan Batt
Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them. -- Hanya Yanagihara
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low. -- Jerry Saltz
What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks. -- Russell Smith
Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection. -- Barbara Kruger
My mother was a very big inspiration. She loved fashion. I loved art in school, and I was very good at drawing. I could sit at the table forever and just dream up collections and draw. -- Nina Garcia
For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an artist should do everything by himself forever. I did it for years and then slowly built my circle of trust. -- JR
But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real. -- Jemima Kirke
First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity. -- Jerry Saltz
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
Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections. -- Jean Pigozzi
A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview. -- Joyce Carol Oates
[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it. -- Peggy Guggenheim
Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different. -- Richard Meier
They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. -- Michael Heizer
There were nude pictures... a lot of it is erotic or sexual. But I don't view my collection as dirty in any way. I view it as art. -- Paul Reubens
I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written. -- Jess Walter

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