I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference – she saved the gorillas. Arne Glimcher Read Quote
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. Arne Glimcher Read Quote
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. Arne Glimcher Read Quote
I don’t believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience. Arne Glimcher Read Quote
It’s possible to have more than one interest. I’ve been a painter and did summer stock. Arne Glimcher Read Quote
Elvis Presley’s music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved – it spoke to me. Arne Glimcher Read Quote
