The Fair "quotes"

1. "When you first start collecting, you're intensely competitive, but eventually you learn two things....First, if an artist is only going to make on good work, then there is no reason to fight over it. Second, a collection is a personal vision. No one can steal your vision." pg 82-83

2. "...it's not just about buying a piece. It's about buying into somebody's life and where there going with it. It's a mutual commitment, which is pretty intense." pg 84

3. "When gallerists are confident about demand for an artist's work they wouldn't dream of surrendering to the first comer or the highest bidder. They compile a list of interested parties so they can place the work in the most prestigious home." pg 88

4. "hurry hurry collectors who go to hurry hurry galleries to buy hurry hurry artists" he likes artists "who are on a slow burn, very good, very serious, not in the fast track, but persuing their own artistic interests with tenacity, quirkiness, and confindence." pg 90

5. "An artist entering an art fair is like a teenager barging into his parents bedroom while there having sex." pg 94