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01 / evaluation
“Every time somebody is a little uptight or conservative or not as fun, they’ll say, “Oh, it’s because you’re such a Calvinist.”
02 / evaluation
“It’s going for three or four times the estimate, but half of the paintings are not being sold. That means that whereas, with these contemporary auctions, you have this totally hideous-looking stuff that sells for $50 million, and you think, for $50 million you can buy a lot of Dutch paintings.”
03 / evaluation
“If you go from midtown Manhattan to Brooklyn, you have the same distance [as from Amsterdam to Utrecht]. It’s 40, 45 minutes door-to-door, but it’s much quieter and smaller, even though you also have everything because it’s a university town.”
04 / evaluation
“Then at a very, very, very great distance, you have all the poor people, millions of them. It’s quite disconcerting if you know Brazil because one of the things about Brazil that makes it both scary in certain moments, but also really dynamic in other moments, is that despite the massive class differences — which are humongous, of course, and that has a racial component as well — you’re always quite .”
05 / evaluation
“I think I say it in the book, that if you go through Dutch galleries and museums, if you go through 20 different rooms and actually try to look at all the pictures, you’re going to get completely bored by the end of it because that’s just not the way they’re meant to be looked at.”
06 / evaluation
“Camille is a complex subject of her own, but she has an idea of herself that she needed to stay in the academy because she felt that teaching and interacting with actual humans was a way of preventing the aristocratic excesses of people like Susan Sontag, which I think is absolutely fair enough.”