Quotes by Alexander Gilkes - Page 1

I respect people's privacy.
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Privacy
Respect People
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Celebrity is not something I consciously pursue.
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Pursue
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In terms of wedding gifts, I like to buy people experiences.
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Wedding
Gifts
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If I find an item of clothing I like, I tend to buy it in multiples.
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Clothing
Item
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We want to ensure works are placed with people who collect responsibly.
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People Who Want
Ensure
Placed
Responsibly
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I was a rather tubby youngster, which was a complete surprise to my family.
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Surprise
Youngster
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I always have my lucky gavel in case I have to do an auction on short notice.
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Lucky
Auction
Case
Short
Notice
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We're big believers that people can learn to collect through the eyes of great collectors.
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Collectors
Believers
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I am never without my gavel, which I bought from an antique shop in Burford, in the Cotswolds.
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Antique
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Artists will always depend on the brick-and-mortar ecosystem to establish authority and context.
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Authority
Context
Ecosystem
Establish
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There is a heavy leaning to try and extract information from me, and I always have to clamp down.
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Extract
Leaning
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I'm the son of a doctor, and the key to working in the art world is to have boundaries of discretion.
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Art World
Boundaries
Discretion
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I'm a bit of a dynamite fisherman when it comes to cooking as I don't have the patience, but I am a huge foodie.
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Cooking
Dynamite
Fisherman
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I'm a big believer in manners and respect: that one should never do to another what you wouldn't wish for yourself.
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Believer
Manners
Big Believer
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If I'm in the English countryside and get on my bicycle, I see what sort of strange inbred rural locals I can snap.
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Bicycle
Countryside
Strange
English
Rural
Snap
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A great friend and mentor, Simon de Pury, invited me to be auctioneer at Phillips de Pury, which was a great honor.
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Invited
Great Me Honor
Simon
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I'm a bit of a vault of secrets. I'm a victim of English reserve, which is slightly in contrast to how I communicate when I auction.
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Communicate
Contrast
Victim
Auction
English
Reserve
Secrets
Slightly
Vault
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I once termed my sense of dress as 'urban farmer' and that became a perennial source of bullying from my friends, particularly my brother.
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Bullying
Urban
Perennial
Termed
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I started my career at LVMH and then I joined Phillips de Pury under the tutelage of Simon de Pury as second auctioneer and head of marketing.
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Marketing
Joined
Simon
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Unfortunately, chivalry seems to be on the decline, but let's hope that manners can remain important. I, for one, will certainly be an evangelist with it.
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Chivalry
Decline
Manners
Certainly
Evangelist
Unfortunately
Remain
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There is such opacity within the art market. There's also an abundance of fraud and misrepresented goods, which leads to mistrust between buyers and sellers.
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Abundance
Buyers
Fraud
Goods
Mistrust
Sellers
Leads
Misrepresented
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My father is someone I've always looked up to as the ultimate example of chivalry and humility, and someone who's just deeply kind and empathetic and selfless.
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Chivalry
Empathetic
Humility
Selfless
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Our gutsy view of the world is that with time, there will be three auction houses: two serving the upper end of the market and Paddle8, serving the middle market.
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Serving
Time World View
Auction
Houses
Upper
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Our generation has become somewhat stripped of identity by the homogenizing effect of technology. So, more than ever, people want to project their own individuality.
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Individuality
Our Generation
Somewhat
Stripped
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I just love the idea of being able to have a place where friends and family can meet, where you can raise everything from chickens to llamas, and, you know, have an artist residency.
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Chickens
Residency
Love Family Know
Friends And Family
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My dream, dream acquisition would probably be a Twombly chalkboard. I've been fortunate to see one or two in a private context, and I think it's just sort of quintessentially brilliant, timeless, modern.
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Acquisition
Brilliant
Fortunate
Timeless
Context
One Or Two
Private
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If you're trying to learn how to collect art, the key is getting access to insider opinions, and we pride ourselves on working with the most relevant artists and the collectors with the most authoritative voices.
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Access
Collectors
Pride
Relevant
Artists
Authoritative
Collect
Getting
Working
Insider
Learn
Opinions
Voices
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I remember being led to a shed by my father for the unveiling of a beautiful bicycle, equipped with stabilizers, on Christmas Day. I must have been four or five and realized that this was my first ride into independence.
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Independence
Bicycle
Christmas Day
Equipped
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My father discovered that our family had made long-case clocks in Warwickshire in the early 18th century. He managed to track down a fine example through an English antiquarian and horologist and gifted it to me for my 30th birthday.
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Birthday
Gifted
Family Me Father
Clocks
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In Europe, there is a lower instance of startups because there's a permanent fear of failure. Everyone fears failure because it is this permanent black mark against your name, whereas in the U.S., failure seems to be par for the course.
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Failure
Instance
Mark
Permanent
Seems
Fears
Lower
Par
Startups
Whereas
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I was given an eight-foot painting on a luminous yellow background as a parting gift when leaving Paris in 2008. I did not dare take it with me to N.Y.C. and understood that the cost of shipping would have far outweighed the cost of the work.
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Cost
Dare
Given
Leaving
Luminous
Painting
Parting
Shipping
Understood
Yellow
Background
Far
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I was given a life-size iron sculpture of a heron by a godparent. It was so poorly made, that it looked more like a pterodactyl and was so unbalanced that it would continue to topple over and create huge divots in my bedroom floor with its sharp beak.
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Bedroom
Iron
Sculpture
Unbalanced
Floor
Poorly
Sharp
Topple
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Auctions typically are an opportunity for you to be able to acquire what you're looking for at a lower price; typically, the auctioneer sets the opening price at much lower than the retail price and certain interest develops and as more people come in it drives the price up.
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Acquire
Opening
Retail
Develops
Drives
Lower Price
More People
Sets
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We want as best as possible to encourage emerging talent and galleries by their inclusion on Paddle8. Our exhibitions help bring interesting new works on the platform. We have to be agnostic in that respect and the galleries themselves have complete carte blanche as far as what they include on the site.
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Respect
Agnostic
Blanche
Emerging
Exhibitions
Inclusion
Interesting
Site
Talent
Works
Bring
Carte
Possible
Complete
Far
Galleries
Help
Include
Platform
Themselves
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I think when you're collecting, the best advice is just 'see see see see.' The more you get used to the nuances of the art world and what people are doing and whose opinion matters, the more you can tune your own collection and know that these are works that do count; these are artists that will be of relevance tomorrow.
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Advice
Art World
Collecting
Opinion
Relevance
Tomorrow
Artists
Works
Count
Matters
Nuances
Tune
Whose
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