"I don't know much about art, really, but I am moved by beauty, " he says.
While auction prices are concrete and verifiable, very little else about art can be objectively quantified.
Because even if you do know about art, you can't talk about it socially.
"It's interesting to buy a house that's all about art when you don't have that much, " he says, laughing.
Aside from changing the face of a prospective docent, teaching museums make learning about art less formal and fussy.
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America, and Germany, were lucky to have in Wiesbaden someone as concerned and knowledgeable about art as Mr Farmer.
This is what I understood about art: its very existence was credential enough.
The aspirations that had launched her from San Francisco and back again marked the way she thought about art and its cultural role.
I've worked as either a journalist, editor or columnist for 15 years and I write about art, investing, and where those two worlds collide.
And the dispute is raising questions about art restoration in general.
When Ms. Madrigal's new friend, Susan Hanover, 61, came to her house on the day they met, they talked about art and their creative projects.
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And instead of a product brochure, Toyota is distributing a slick magazine called Scion, Sight, Sound, Motion, filled with more information about art, music and fashion than about the car.
Oftentimes when people write about art, they use poetic language.
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Some of them seem to be about business management, but one is about calculus, and there are others about art and history, and one narrow volume looks like a collection of poetry.
Ms. Wilkin writes about art for the Journal.
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The diamond skull has fulfilled its destiny, which is to be a talking point, what used to be miscalled a conversation piece: a way of chattering about art for people who know nothing about it.
Barnes (1872-1951), the physician who devoted a fortune made from a drug of his own invention, Argyrol, to the creation of this extraordinary collection, every item expressed his obsessively personal vision and idiosyncratic ideas about art.
While museums, auctions, galleries, studios and international fairs are more integral to the art world, Miami Art Basel has become an annual touchpoint for talking about art to big audiences and for art collectors to strut their stuff.
It's been so many years, in fact, since Allen told us to "go backwards when forward fails" that the notions of forward and backward no longer seem relevant, and neither do any of the standard ways of thinking about art generationally.
Thirty Are Better Than One is not really about the Mona Lisa or even about art, but rather concerns the tortuous relationship between culture and media, a relationship beginning to play out in his own life as he became the first meta-celebrity.
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In the first-ever Apprentice-style program about art, aired over four one-hour episodes, a panel of four judges winnows a field of thousands down to a group of six, who then get put through reality-show-like challenges, including life drawing and creating a work of public art at the British seaside.
Churchill might tell me something about the art of statecraft, or Fry about the pressures of fame and the joy of words, but someone closer to home, with a life more like mine and challenges more like mine, will tell me far more about a life with mental health difficulty and how best to live it.
Paul Emsley was asked how he felt about some art critics' less than flattering comments about his work.
Whatever else Mr Avedon thought about photography, an art about which he was unceasingly articulate and philosophical, he did not want it to be kind.
Neil Baxter, of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, says the best of public art can be "ironic" and "playful, " all about taking art out of the formal setting of a gallery.
What I love about fan art is that no one asked them to do it.
People know they can learn a thing or two about the art of investing from billionaires.
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