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Arne Glimcher Biography

Arnold "Arne" Glimcher (born March 12, 1938) is an American art dealer, film producer and director. He is the founder of The Pace Gallery. Glimcher has also produced and directed several films, including The Mambo Kings and Just Cause.

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

Art, Believe, Firsthand, Selling, Transparencies

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.

Art, Time, Wonderful, World

Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.

Art, Back, Jewels, Objects, Spoils, War

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.

Affection, Italian, Jewish, Latin, Like, Men

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.

Auction, Auctions, Bidding, Meryl, Night

Everything happens through relationships.

Everything, Happens, Relationships, Things Happen

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, Beautiful, People, Thought, World

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

Elvis, Loved, Meant, Music, Spoke, Spokes

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.

Fate, Life, Mosaic, Moving, Thinking, Toward

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

20Th Century, Century, Dream, Dreams, Love

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.

Art, Financially, Market, Museums, People, Pleasure

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.

Art, Boston, Kid, Kids, School

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

Arne

As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

America, Art, Migrated, War

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

Paid, Price, Think, Thinking, Trophies

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