Joseph Duveen Quotes
8 quotes from Joseph Duveen — Art dealer who dominated the international art market in the early 20th century, selling Old Master paintings to Americ….
“When you pay high for the priceless, you're getting it cheap.”
“Europe has the art, America has the money.”
“You can get all the pictures you want at fifty thousand dollars apiece — that's easy. But to get pictures at a quarter of a million apiece — that wants doing!”
“Well, I fooled 'em for five years.”
“Ah, yes. The pictures always look better when you are here.”
“One can only say again how utterly duveen.”
“He's not ready for me yet. Let him go on buying. Someday he'll be big enough for me.”
“Art works don't rise and fall in value like pig iron or sheet copper or tin mines. They have a value and that is all there is to it.”
