The Work

Would it be possible, ever, to be a good person in life as well as a great person in art? Both seemed to require every ounce of her energy at all times. Neither came naturally.

it sounds like you were his patron, and when artists take money from patrons they do so with the knowledge that the content or nature of their work might be compromised.’ Gen shrugged. ‘That’s the deal.’ ‘Then I go to

Art should do more than ‘remind’.

People in big business podcasts always talked about taking risks, but they were always the people whose risks turned out to be smart moves.

You just had to ask yourself, is this a deviation from the vision?

How easily a legacy could be created and maintained with the right number of cheques.

It felt to Lally as if she were being presented to the painting rather than the other way around.

If Frick was the dick he sounded like, it made her furious to think of how his money shaped the market and perceptions of art in his own time. And still

Lally was a decade too old to be the subject of Farr’s interest. What a wounding relief.