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Peggy Guggenheim

Confessions Of an Art Addict

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  • Nina Kononovahas quoted8 years ago
    I went to a psychologist and asked him if he thought I was losing my mind. He replied, ‘Are you sure you have a mind to lose?’
  • Arinahas quoted8 years ago
    At this point of my existence I was practically ignorant of all art after the Impressionists.
  • Constanza Cruz Alonsohas quoted6 years ago
    The twentieth century has already produced
  • Constanza Cruz Alonsohas quoted6 years ago
    One cannot expect every decade to produce genius.
  • Constanza Cruz Alonsohas quoted6 years ago
    Art mirrors its age, therefore it had to change completely, as the world changed so vastly and so quickly
  • Constanza Cruz Alonsohas quoted6 years ago
    People blame me for what is painted today because I had encouraged and helped this new movement to be born. I am not responsible
  • Constanza Cruz Alonsohas quoted6 years ago
    do not like art today. I think it has gone to hell, as a result of the financial attitude.
  • Constanza Cruz Alonsohas quoted6 years ago
    Only a few persons really care for paintings. The rest buy them from snobbishness or to avoid taxation, presenting pictures to museums and being allowed to keep them until their death, a way of having your cake and eating it.
  • Constanza Cruz Alonsohas quoted6 years ago
    Manet, Monet, Daumier, Van Gogh, Courbet, Klee, Vlaminck, Degas, Jean Hugo, Laurens, Utrillo, Braque, and Derain.
  • Constanza Cruz Alonsohas quoted6 years ago
    They were the only dogs admitted to the exhibition, and when they were lost in this labyrinth I always found them in the Picasso exhibition; which proves how valuable their education had been at Art of This Century, where they had accompanied me every day.
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