Robert Johnson Art Quotations

He was very down-to-earth and had a wonderful kind of comfortably cynical sensibility. The way to get his back up was to say, 'I'm not sure about these two prints. Which is the best investment?' He would just say, 'You're in the wrong place.' He hated that people would buy art as an investment. He thought you should buy it out of love. He made a living, but he was not a highly commercial dealer. He wanted to do it his way.

I have pains in my hearts, they have taken my appetite.

It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.