All That Glitters Quotes

“pies. But if there’s a point where art dealing stops having anything to do with art”
― Orlando Whitfield, All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art

“The more successful Inigo appeared to his clients”
― Orlando Whitfield, All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art

“This makes the art market wildly unstable: vast sums of money change hands”
― Orlando Whitfield, All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art

“Vladimir Nabokov’s memoir”
― Orlando Whitfield, All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art

“I had grown up on a rich diet of art world legend and myth”
― Orlando Whitfield, All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art

“jokes. In my whole life I don’t think I have ever come across someone who seems so perpetually at ease; he always has the physical bearing and relaxed mien of someone who has been recently massaged. My lasting impression of Andre (and I only met him on a handful of occasions) is of him shrugging – not out of exasperation”
― Orlando Whitfield, All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art

“US. The whole thing unravelled with an almost Pink Panther-esque inevitability when twin paintings of an otherwise wholly forgettable Gauguin of some flowers in a vase were put up for sale simultaneously in two different auctions. (It is worth noting that”
― Orlando Whitfield, All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art

“the kind of neighbourhood where the white tent set up on a street corner might equally have been a bloody crime scene or an organic farmers market.”
― Orlando Whitfield, All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art

“The gallery’s name alludes to a 1986 book of essays by the late art critic Brian O’Doherty called Inside the White Cube that highlights the importance of white-walled gallery spaces in the history of modern art and makes a case for the white cube as an ideal – quasi-sacred – arena for twentieth-century art and beyond.”
― Orlando Whitfield, All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art

“As Inigo told me, before the opening of a gallery exhibition, Jopling would go through lists of available works, frequently purchasing one or two of the best works for Modern Collections, i.e. himself. It is not uncommon for gallerists to buy artworks by their own artists before”
― Orlando Whitfield, All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art