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When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try to replace it. They choose the former.

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

Arne Glimcher

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

Arne Glimcher

If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.

Arne Glimcher

Film and art are close together.

Arne Glimcher

I'm a visual person.

Arne Glimcher

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 rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.

Arne Glimcher

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

Arne Glimcher

The '80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art. When the Japanese economy went down the tubes, there was no one left to pay the prices that have been recorded for all of those works.

Arne Glimcher

Money embarrasses me.

Arne Glimcher

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

Arne Glimcher

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.

Arne Glimcher

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

When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try to replace it. They choose the former.

Arne Glimcher