Reputation
Matthew Marks has a reputation for working closely with artists. His first show of artists’ sketchbooks set the tone for the gallery’s future. Nothing was for sale, and most of works had never been seen before by the public. A catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition.
Brice Marden, one of the gallery’s stalwart artists, said “Crudely spoken, seems to be a little less in it for himself than a lot of the other dealers.” Established dealer Barbara Gladstone said that ‘the artists love him. He’s comfortable with artists; he really puts himself out for them.” And collector Eli Broad was quoted as saying, “I do not believe artists go to his gallery for his savvy as a businessman,” comments the collector Eli Broad…“ for his sure taste and for the seriousness he brings to everything he does” (translated from French).
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Famous quotes containing the word reputation:
“I see my reputation is at stake,
My fame is shrewdly gored.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.”
—French Proverb. Quoted in Dictionary of Similes, ed. Frank J. Wilstach (1916)